in reply to Encouraging comments for downvotes

My feeling on this (and my personal experience) is that if a node has a technical fault it might be downvoted, but someone will point out the problems (possibly the downvoter, though not necessarily).

Nodes that get downvoted with no explanation tend to be of a type where the attitude of the poster is the problem, not the actual technical content.

Personally I'd leave the voting system as it is...

Michael