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IIRC, Dang's explicitly stated that the downvote button is ok to use as a disagree button.

• notmypenguin 3y ago
  How come you get a downvote button? I’ve never seen one here. This place has an in group, I see… serves me right for typing comments on a VC blog
  • defrost 3y ago
    It's an age of account | depth of engagement thing. Stay a while longer, get a few more upvotes on your comments (the general key is to add substance), and one day you'll get the option to downvote comments | flag topics / comments, etc.
  • Shared404 3y ago
    https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented Downvotes and more are unofficially documented here. Mostly I agree with your take, my assumption is that the karma requirement for downvoting is to help prevent downvote spam, but that's just me making crap up.