From the HN guidelines:
"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
Yes, I can see that your account was created in 2011 :)
"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
Yes, I can see that your account was created in 2011 :)
Regardless, I don't think silent downvotes really cut it anymore either - nowadays I tend to run out of them after reading only a couple submissions with active comment threads.