Honestly I hate the downvote cabal. I make a new account every time I get the option, because it hurts discussion even when I try to be reserved in is use. It often just amplfies the already echoey nature of this great forum. It also helps me make better comments, as HN ers are always intensely critical of newcomers and low vote score accounts. The opposite is true. I see some popular HNers get worthless character attacks upvoted due to their name alone, while the unpopular opinion, or rather the only expressed opinion, is buried. I would rather hear the occasional screams of the kooks than miss the changing color of the darkening sky in our industry.