It's a flawed system now that people most often use downvotes as disagrees. In the process of disagreeing you are also suppressing alternative opinions and info

It's a flawed system now that people most often use downvotes as disagrees. In the process of disagreeing you are also suppressing alternative opinions and information. It's the modern day version of shooting the messenger. Slashdot figured this out in the 90s. If you're going to ask people to rank stuff you need to give them a handful of basic categories to choose from (inaccurate, misleading, redundant, etc) instead of a good vs bad binary selection.