In my experience, just adding politeness to a contrarian comment avoids the downvotes. I had some downvoted comments but I think it never happened when I was p

In my experience, just adding politeness to a contrarian comment avoids the downvotes. I had some downvoted comments but I think it never happened when I was politely disagreeing before making my point. I think people (and I include myself) are more easily "triggerable" nowadays. I also think we can fix this by taking the habit to write like we are attacking the point and not the person. One easy way to do this is to overuse the "I" subject, even if it is to write and not just throw your facts. There is no real difference between « you are wrong because » and « I think you missed [that point] because » but the later is, automatically, more respectful.