I rarely downvote those I disagree with. And when I do, my goal is to have them reconsider and question their position and not at all to silence them. I fail t

I rarely downvote those I disagree with. And when I do, my goal is to have them reconsider and question their position and not at all to silence them. I fail to see how I jumped to conclusions. You clearly stated that vis-a-vis regulation: > I'm a big proponent. Everything from closed-source to monopolies and ads. If this is not an extreme pro-regulation attitude then I don't know what is. And just to be clear, comments are clearly superior to downvotes, though we'd hardly get any work done had we written replies to all comments we disagree with; thus, occasionally replying via downvotes.