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I don't believe that "downvote to disagree" is compatible with "encouraging intellectual diversity". I tend to only do it when disagrees particularly poorly, eg
by Torgo 11y ago
I don't believe that "downvote to disagree" is compatible with "encouraging intellectual diversity". I tend to only do it when disagrees particularly poorly, eg bad evidence or reasoning, or is being a jerk. But I definitely have noticed more downvoting in the last couple months, of myself and others where it didn't feel like the downvoters were interested in suffering the existence of disagreement.
- brudgers 11y agoYep. I down vote instead of "wrestling a pig in a mudpit." This thread is a perfect example. I'm not going to convince anyone who is complaining about downvoting in disagreement that downvoting for disagreement is good because they are complaining about rather than enquiring into the use of downvotes. Stick around long enough and you realize it all evens out over time, wrong upvotes balance wrong downvotes...or in some sorts of threads overwhelm them...and the way to avoid diwnvotes is to write better comments. Accusing 'other people' of bad behavior is a lazy injustice.