I think a lot of people use downvote on things they disagree with. I personally try to downvote things that I see that are detrimental to good conversation not

I think a lot of people use downvote on things they disagree with. I personally try to downvote things that I see that are detrimental to good conversation not things I disagree with. If I disagree with you but it's good conversation you get an upvote. I like differing opinions. I like productive conversation. I probably use downvoting similar to flagging. Swearing, cursing, being rude, etc get downvoted. I once did an experiment. Where I took one of the bottom comments and copied his post word for word minus the part that could be considered rude (with his permission) to see how much one sentence could throw off a comment. It is one of my higher rated comments. I'll have to go back and look it up. My copy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395162 Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395046 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395046