palladias comments on Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio - Less Wrong Discussion
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Explaining downvotes threatens to turn threads into metadebates about the validity of that downvote.
And requiring explanations would then mean that a heavily downvoted post gets lots of stupid responses along the lines of "You're a troll" or just a link to another comment.