<human>: Condense the text into a few key points

I would like to see an option that allows you to sort things based on upvotes only. Both stories and comments. I love subreddits that have the ability to downvote disabled and think it would be great to have the option sort things with the downvote information not included.

My reasoning is this... With the huge influx of traffic it has only been natural that more people have begun disregarding reddiquette. Specifically what the purpose of downvoting is for. I feel too many people have begun abusing the downvote and as a consequence some very interesting content and challenging discussion gets buried out of sight simply because the majority doesn't like it. If a group of people find something interesting that the masses of reddit don't find interesting then I would still like to know about it. But sadly I don't have the time to pillage through pages and pages of stories rated at 0 and comments deeply in the negative. I just feel strongly that downvoting had a purpose at one point but now the negative consequences are far outweighing the positive reasons to having downvotes. Its not an "I disagree" button.
<bot>: I'd like to be able to sort based entirely on how many people found something interesting, not on the  total difference between the # of upvotes and the # of downvotes.