I don't think the community has a problem. It's more that we're out of options. Most people (as far as I understand) downvote for a huge variety of reasons. So

I don't think the community has a problem. It's more that we're out of options. Most people (as far as I understand) downvote for a huge variety of reasons. Some are not acceptable by others. I trust the everybody knows WHAT a downvote is, so they are using it as best as they can. I've been downvoted for my answers, when they were either politically different from some people OR they contained some form of bad language (e.g. irony). So all in all from I've seen, the downvoting system works fine as far as I can tell. If we had more options then might be better.