Don’t worry. I’d guess that posting this comment resulted in other people downvoting the article to compensate.
Which makes me think the karma limit on downvotes doesn’t prevent downvotes (among high-karma members) so much as make them something that’s done indirectly by posting a comment, rather than clicking “vote down.”
I’m sad that I can’t downvote this article. It’s ridiculously off-topic.
ETA: still, it’s terrible. That’s how Douglas Adams died!
Don’t worry. I’d guess that posting this comment resulted in other people downvoting the article to compensate.
Which makes me think the karma limit on downvotes doesn’t prevent downvotes (among high-karma members) so much as make them something that’s done indirectly by posting a comment, rather than clicking “vote down.”
It seems almost designed to degenerate into a flame-war concerning cryonics!