That can't be an actual observation, because the system-imposed limit on negative karma scores for one comment has been -4 for a while. A comment with that recent of an item number would have been posted with that limit in place. I can remember the days when negative karma per comment was apparently unlimited (although such comments would gray out to invisibility at about -25, if I remember correctly) and a longer period when the limit was -8. That hasn't been a problem for most of the most active participants here, even those who actively disagree with some of the consensus opinions that do trigger reflex downvotes here.
I just searched your list of threads, through the first couple pages, and didn't see any such posts. While I did that, I did see a very interesting comment by btilly in a thread I hadn't visited previously, but I didn't see any comments by anyone with karma scores below -4. Does someone have a current link to anyone's recent comment with such a low score?
That can't be an actual observation, because the system-imposed limit on negative karma scores for one comment has been -4 for a while. A comment with that recent of an item number would have been posted with that limit in place. I can remember the days when negative karma per comment was apparently unlimited (although such comments would gray out to invisibility at about -25, if I remember correctly) and a longer period when the limit was -8. That hasn't been a problem for most of the most active participants here, even those who actively disagree with some of the consensus opinions that do trigger reflex downvotes here.