where you have to provide a reason for the downvote

I would really like to see that here too, sometimes i'll get slammed and won't know if it's because I made a mistake or if I PO'd some racists. Hell, I wouldn't even care about getting downs if they were transparent about why I was getting them. What I care about is keeping the signal:noise ratio high, and it's hard to do that when you have some harassing assholes downing everything you post regardless of content.