>By trying to argue that is a completely lost cause. Most redditors think the purpose of a downvote is to indicate disagreement. You are completely right, but

>By trying to argue that is a completely lost cause. Most redditors think the purpose of a downvote is to indicate disagreement. You are completely right, but I would say it's even worse than this. I believe it has become an established community norm, not only to reflexively downvote, but to treat complaints or concerns about this behavior as poor form which is out of bounds, and which is also downvoted. And so the bad down voting behavior is there, and because it's the mindless mass, and reflexively defense itself when it gets called out, a community norm of enshrining this bad behavior has crystallized.