I've been hearing people complain that "downvoting was so much better back in the day!" for as long as I can remember, on pretty much any site with downvotes. F

I've been hearing people complain that "downvoting was so much better back in the day!" for as long as I can remember, on pretty much any site with downvotes. For example you can find comments from more than 10 years ago in [1]; e.g. from 2011: "Glad to see the downvote-disagree is becoming ever more prevalent!"[2] [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22downvote%22%20%22disagree%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403589