I lose points a lot & I don't mind that.

But I do think there are, often, some very biased negative idealogues who vote down interesting & valuable opinions, regularly, & mercilessly, because they don't jive with the image of the world as the downvoter wants to believe it.

I think it's very frustrating. And unfortunate. And I think that usually it's the ungenerous zero-sum view of the world people that tend to be mass downvoters. There are other generally unpopular or unsupportable opinions that get down voted too, which I think is more in the cards, more regular, & especially in the contested/hot threads up top. My main concern is not this, not people getting blown out of the water in hot spots, but a lot of interesting voices getting chilled & sent down.

My ask is: more data. Show upvoted & downvoted separately when one hovers over the net points of a post. I also like the opinion that downvotes ought include a reason, a cause: off topic, bad content, bad whatever, slashdot style.