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I bet that 99% of comments that are downvoted are not breaking any rules at all, and a mod would do nothing.
I don't know why people keep thinking downvoting is helping the mods... It really isn't about anything other than pushing down opinions you don't agree with. That's how downvoting is used, upvoting is the opposite of that.
Yep also a valid usecase. I agree it's useful for technical discussions but at the same time, it's harmful for opinion based discussions.
Which is why you shouldn't downvote everything you disagree with. That's not what it's for, and we should actively discourage people from using it incorrectly. As Sisyphean of a task as that is, it still matters.
You cannot change how people use them, no matter how much you want them to use it correctly.
Yeah I guess it makes sense when it's not about opinions.