@dang can we remove the downvote system? Over the last months, I’ve had multiple situations where I tried to say something positive about either Elon Musk or something negative about the democratic party and in most cases this just resulted in a bunch of downvotes. This led me to stop talking about it to not loose karma.<p>The problem is that it makes this website more of an echo chamber than it should be. If anything non-conformist could mean the loss of karma, then people are incentivized to just conform to the prevailing opinion.<p>This is important because as we’ve now seen, Trump has won even though (almost) nobody here on HN expresses anything positive about Trump. This is a big problem for HN because apparently it’s disconnected from reality. Yes I’m here to talk about geek stuff, but I am especially interested in a reasonably unbiased opinion of what other engineers think. I don’t think the downvoting system helps with this.