I find receiving downvotes pretty demoralising, in particular when they are given for disagreeing with the conclusion, rather than thinking something is poorly reasoned.
“This person disagrees with me” and “the person thinks my reasoning is bad” are closely related—if your reasoning was good, they’d agree with you. And even when they differ, the original author is hardly an unbiased judge.
I don’t think of it that way, because usually there are multiple important considerations on both sides of a disagreement.
If someone raised a legitimate reason for their point of view, but I disagreed with their conclusion all things considered, I would not down-vote unless I thought the reason they were focussed on in their comment didn’t make sense. That’s rarely the case here; disagreements are most often about different weight given to different considerations.
I find receiving downvotes pretty demoralising, in particular when they are given for disagreeing with the conclusion, rather than thinking something is poorly reasoned.
“This person disagrees with me” and “the person thinks my reasoning is bad” are closely related—if your reasoning was good, they’d agree with you. And even when they differ, the original author is hardly an unbiased judge.
I don’t think of it that way, because usually there are multiple important considerations on both sides of a disagreement.
If someone raised a legitimate reason for their point of view, but I disagreed with their conclusion all things considered, I would not down-vote unless I thought the reason they were focussed on in their comment didn’t make sense. That’s rarely the case here; disagreements are most often about different weight given to different considerations.
Something can be well-reasoned but still be disagreeable if it ignores an important consideration.