Getting downvoted isn’t ‘abuse’ - it’s just a signal that people disagree with you. :) I’m not convinced of the case you’re making for education, for example.
I hope that karma isn’t a signal of disagreement! We’ve always had norms of karma being a signal for good and bad content, and explicitly not about whether you agree or disagree with someone. I definitely upvote many things I disagree with, and downvote many things that argue badly for conclusions I agree with.
Like Habryka, I agree that downvotes aren’t abuse, but I’d prefer downvotes to be used for poor quality or inaccurate arguments rather than skepticism or respectful disagreement.
Any one downvote without comment is understandable. I persistently get downvoted. At that point most people leave the community. Are those the norms that we want to create?
I never downvote people I disagree with, I ask them why and try to learn from them (or teach them).
Getting downvoted isn’t ‘abuse’ - it’s just a signal that people disagree with you. :) I’m not convinced of the case you’re making for education, for example.
I hope that karma isn’t a signal of disagreement! We’ve always had norms of karma being a signal for good and bad content, and explicitly not about whether you agree or disagree with someone. I definitely upvote many things I disagree with, and downvote many things that argue badly for conclusions I agree with.
This seems fair—though I would hope there would be significant overlap between ‘I agree with this’ and ‘this is a good argument’.
I agree with all of this.
Like Habryka, I agree that downvotes aren’t abuse, but I’d prefer downvotes to be used for poor quality or inaccurate arguments rather than skepticism or respectful disagreement.
Hello Henry_Stanley,
Any one downvote without comment is understandable. I persistently get downvoted. At that point most people leave the community. Are those the norms that we want to create?
I never downvote people I disagree with, I ask them why and try to learn from them (or teach them).