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by kuroir 5607 days ago
Before going into the Downvote thing, why do you upvote? It varies from person to person, but.. lets make some assumptions.

Someone may upvote someone's post because..

1. It adds something to the discussion... or

2. It's funny.. or

3. They agree about it.. or

4. they just want to troll... or

5. they like that person.. or

6. all of above.

And with that I you can pretty much say that you would downvote doing the exact opposite.

Someone may downvote someone's post because..

1. It doesn't add something to the discussion... or

2. It isn't funny.. or

3. they disagree about it.. or

4. they find you're trolling... or

5. they dislike that person.. or

6. all of above.

So yeah, in the mind Disagree = Downvote

1 comments

upvotes are truthy, downvotes are falsy.