Who cares about being upvoted or downvoted on Hacker News? There are no guidelines or standards for voting, so there's no context to glean from it, unless a comment gets voted into near obscurity (those are usually objectively bad.) Karma is a meaningless number that tells you little about the quality of the person it's attached to.
This forum is full of programmers, designers and UX engineers. There's nothing wrong with criticizing the site's layout or interface, that's a sign that you actually care about it.
As I noticed - it forces newcomers to stay away from reddit style commenting, also it moves down uninteresting and boring comments so that you can skip to read the bottom lines.
This forum is full of programmers, designers and UX engineers. There's nothing wrong with criticizing the site's layout or interface, that's a sign that you actually care about it.