Oh, I'm not saying the site is immune to something like that. And this is part of the reason why so much of the discussion lately in the meta subs and on the lounge has been regarding downvotes and some of the best ways to retain this type of attitude towards downvotes as the site grows larger. I was mainly commenting on the current culture of the site. Something downvoted to zero here would garner a much worse reaction than if it was downvoted to zero on a very small sub on reddit. On reddit, people would just walk away from a post that is downvoted to zero. Currently, people here would very much take offense to genuine content having a zero score. Another example would be the comments. You would be strained to find a non-spam comment that is not at least at a +1 score. Go to any subreddit of the same size or activity and you'll probably find a couple in each thread.
Oh, I'm not saying the site is immune to something like that. And this is part of the reason why so much of the discussion lately in the meta subs and on the lounge has been regarding downvotes and some of the best ways to retain this type of attitude towards downvotes as the site grows larger. I was mainly commenting on the current culture of the site. Something downvoted to zero here would garner a much worse reaction than if it was downvoted to zero on a very small sub on reddit. On reddit, people would just walk away from a post that is downvoted to zero. Currently, people here would very much take offense to genuine content having a zero score. Another example would be the comments. You would be strained to find a non-spam comment that is not at least at a +1 score. Go to any subreddit of the same size or activity and you'll probably find a couple in each thread.