Do you think the comments themselves ought not have been downvoted? Or just that, regardless of the value of the comments, the author ought not have been?
If the former, that seems a broader concern. If you have a sense of what it is about them that the community disliked that it ought not have disliked, it might be valuable to articulate that sense and why a different metric would be preferable.
If the latter, I’m not sure that’s a bad thing, nor am I sure that “fixing” it doesn’t cause more problems than it resolves.
Do you think the comments themselves ought not have been downvoted? Or just that, regardless of the value of the comments, the author ought not have been?
If the former, that seems a broader concern. If you have a sense of what it is about them that the community disliked that it ought not have disliked, it might be valuable to articulate that sense and why a different metric would be preferable.
If the latter, I’m not sure that’s a bad thing, nor am I sure that “fixing” it doesn’t cause more problems than it resolves.