> If you don't, you get downvotes and criticism.

Heh, if you're lucky. Often you get just the downvotes.

The incentives encourage people to downvote rather than criticise. If they post a critical response, they run the risk of being downvoted by those who disagree with that criticism. You can't get downvoted for a silent downvote.

Awesome. So we can just scroll to the bottom and fish out some of the truths visitors from the future better be careful not to say.