While I may not agree with your opinion, I upvoted you because your position is certainly not uncommon and saw your reply go grey. And that irritates me.

I'm getting really pissed off about people downvoting who have nothing constructive to add to the conversation.

Rather than downvoting, fucking REPLY. A downvote is lazy--it's actually worse than doing nothing on a low-vote thread--it's a sin on the level of turning down the premise when doing improv comedy. An articulated position furthers the conversation and actually represents effort.

When did HN readership become such prissy hothouse flowers? FFS.

(EDIT: I turned down the swearing a bit)