I was responding to marak830's claim that the guidelines say you should downvote comments you disagree with. You can look at the guidelines; it's not there. The

I was responding to marak830's claim that the guidelines say you should downvote comments you disagree with. You can look at the guidelines; it's not there. The rest is my opinion. I believe that downvoting comments that you disagree with is a terrible policy since you end up with an echo chamber where anyone with a contrary opinion gets their comment moved to the bottom of the thread and grayed out. If someone says something you disagree with, the appropriate response is to engage them in a dialog and figure out why they believe what they do, not downvote them.