[NowThenGoodBad]

I can’t speak about here, but on Reddit, people use the voting for “like/agree” or “dislike/disagree”.

At some point I read somewhere that the whole point of upvote and downvote on Reddit was for “contributed to conversation” (upvote) or doesn’t (downvote).

That, to me, makes sense.

Disagreeing is part of what promotes good, challenging discussions. It also buffers us from external influences controlling the crowd of “agree’ers”. By promoting and encouraging differences of opinion or view, we make it harder for someone to come in and sway the crowd.

[pr3dr49]

I think I'm starting to get the gist of it now. Thanks. I should have upwoted than, because I felt the sentiment to be valid in the context of the post and the conversation thread.

[em-bee]

unfortunately some people feel that saying something they don't agree with isn't contributing to the discussion and are downvoting anyways. i upvote comments that i see unfairly downvoted.

btw, our little subthread here is off topic and may be downvoted for that. (rightfully as we aren't contributing to the actual topic)