I don't agree that a voting system inherently prevents contrarian viewpoints. Discourages them, perhaps, but there's still plenty of disagreements that happen h

I don't agree that a voting system inherently prevents contrarian viewpoints. Discourages them, perhaps, but there's still plenty of disagreements that happen here. It helps that the points are hidden to other viewers, so they serve more as vague feedback to the commenter instead of causing voting wars and blocs like they do on reddit. Speaking for myself, I generally post whatever I feel like as long as it's not overtly hostile, like when I'm in a bad mood. Through the course of a day I'll often see a comment upvoted a few times and then downvoted into the negative and then come back up, usually ending up at 1 or 2 points after a couple days. When someone strongly disagrees though, I do wish they'd just comment and discuss it instead of leaving a drive-by vote with no comment. I very rarely downvote (usually it's just by accident because the mobile UX sucks), but frequently share dissenting opinions here. I don't know or care what my karma is (I didn't realize the downvotes even count toward it). I also keep showdead on and frequently vouch for things.