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I strongly disagree with pg on this. Particularly because downvoting leads to comments being hidden / killed. I think it's a recipe for an echo chamber, and i

• barnabee 4y ago
  I think your comment is interesting even though I disagree, so I upvoted. It's perhaps important though I didn't state it, that the strength of my impetus to upvote interesting comments or comments that add value to the discussion is stronger than the strength of the impetus to downvote on disagreement, so when the too clash it's an upvote or no action. So I don't feel like your worry is a practical issue for hoe I use the voting buttons. After reading these comments, if something is mediocre and I think it's wrong that still seems like a good reason to use downvote on disagreement (where I don't go around downvoting every mediocre comment, though I could see the argument for doing so).