I don't know if pg still feels this way since this post is from 881 days ago, but at one point he said the following: "I think it's ok to use the up and down a

I don't know if pg still feels this way since this post is from 881 days ago, but at one point he said the following: "I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness." [1] Of course, the community could decide that, at this point, downvoting for disagreement no longer makes sense. I'm pretty agnostic on the issue. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171