I’m very curious about the reasoning different people use when deciding to downvote a post or comment. Often, when something gets “heavily” downvoted, the OP will ask some variation of “why the downvotes?”. This is sometimes answered with sincere criticism, but sometimes is received even more poorly than the original offending post.
Do you downvote people who ask “why the downvotes?”? What informs the decision?
I think there are pros and cons. I like being able to sort by Hot or Top to see what everyone else is thinking about, but with comments I like to sort by Old and just see how the conversation unfolds in time.
Old forums were chronological by default.