I agree it’s a lot better than most. Lately though I’ve been thinking that even just the upvotes are a bit insidious in that it’s hard not to keep coming back and checking your ‘score’ after making a comment.

Downvotes are important for moderation and I think ‘anti-downvote’ upvotes are necessary as well as a check on downvotes, but apart from that I wonder if it wouldn’t be a less addictive and healthier site overall without upvotes, or at least without upvote numbers being visible.

I suppose this could be accomplished with an extension too.