I wholeheartedly disagree with downvote mechanism - it's a terrible mechanism for guiding toward civil conversation, and the fact that even talking about that i

I wholeheartedly disagree with downvote mechanism - it's a terrible mechanism for guiding toward civil conversation, and the fact that even talking about that is artificially frowned upon is absurd. If people have an issue with something - if it's well thought out enough reason by a person who would otherwise downvote, then if they're not willing to even spend the effort to articulate it into words - which would 1) help them think through their logic, develop their own critical thinking, perhaps catch incongruence, and 2) offer an opportunity of a different perspective to the person they're responding to. The ease of someone downvoting, the laziness of it, doesn't match real world conversations.