On 11 September 2013 16:09, Leszek Krupiński <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the other hand, I could downvote a person that has a different opinion
> than I do.
>
And the negative reaction on a forum to someone doing that would be much
more visible, and much more effective at getting them to not do something
so destructive again, on an appropriately-designed interface than it is on
a mailing list. People suppressing opinions they don't like (in the
mailing list case, by fillibustering endlessly) is very much an existing
problem.
--G