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Anyone care to speculate as to why only comments can be downvoted?

• starshadowx2 11y ago
  "Good"/useful submissions will (hopefully) get upvoted anyways, so there isn't really a need to downvote the "bad" ones. It could also be considered a deterrent for new users who are still learning what is "good" to submit, or it could be used for an automatic downvote bot or something.
  • jklein11 11y ago
    Couldn't the same thing be said about good/useful comments?