> the downvote button is not for disagreeing That's how I think it should be, but Paul Graham disagrees (or at least he did in 2008 and I haven't seen anything

> the downvote button is not for disagreeing That's how I think it should be, but Paul Graham disagrees (or at least he did in 2008 and I haven't seen anything later about him changing his mind). In [1] he wrote: > I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171