It did cost points to downvote questions, but they rolled that back (seemingly 2011): - https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-down https://stackoverfl

It did cost points to downvote questions, but they rolled that back (seemingly 2011): - https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-down https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-down - https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-...