I agree that it's a dark pattern, but I wish that more people would reserve downvotes for comments not constructive to the unpacking of ideas and opinions, such

I agree that it's a dark pattern, but I wish that more people would reserve downvotes for comments not constructive to the unpacking of ideas and opinions, such as inflammatory, derailing, or factually misleading/incorrect information. I feel that I've seen too many unexplained downvotes placed seemingly because of disagreement with a commenter's articulated contrarian opinion, and that's bad for meaningful discourse.