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by wjy 5555 days ago
If voting was meant to indicate agreement or disagreement, then EVERYBODY would be able to downvote.
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For all intents and purposes, anyone can downvote. A few hous worth of groupthink comments will get you the ability.

Really this is all silly, if you upvote for agreement, why not the opposite?