Well down-votes are a part of the internet. The only reason getting flagged is so poorly received here is because we have made a downvote into something which is like a negative badge a post has to wear. You are reading too much into the term "get past." What was intended there is that we have to as a community get back to the mindset that a downvote is a normal thing, because it is everywhere else on the internet, and if and when the community grows huge, people will use them as such.