Is -8 a record?

Not even close: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71155

Seems like we have a fairly prim audience here...

I wonder if it's not so much primness as a desire to steer threads away from the sort of boring/crude one-liners that reddit can often devolve into.

I am not in favor of huge downvotes. I think a 0 or a -1 is enough for someone to get the idea that people don't approve. Heaping on the votes is sort of pointless.

Probably partly. But readers here also seem to pounce on some comments that are politically incorrect.

Yes, I think poor juwo would agree with that statement.

I upmodded both of them

Looks like I have a new goal in life. -23, here I come.

there..I helped you tie the record

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2000/0211homeless.html