My comment was a reference to the fact that there are multiple considerations and reducing it to a single one (positivity vs. negativity) is taking things too far. As you are probably aware I have been a champion of positivity as an effective approach to community-building for a long time, and I remain so, but this does not mean that it overrides everything else. There is an evolution of awareness of the need for downvoting as well as upvoting, as can be seen not only in the statements and actions of the founders and developers but also in the recent (and long considered and debated) change to add "disagreement on rewards" to the flagging UI.
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