> Because people use the down-vote button to express disagreement. While that is often true, this is not the case here. The purpose of the "downvote" is to pu

> Because people use the down-vote button to express disagreement. While that is often true, this is not the case here. The purpose of the "downvote" is to push poor discussion to the bottom of the page. The rhetorical questions and obviously poor comparisons add nothing to the discussion.