[quantified]

It quite depends. A review of downvoting I've been part of includes "I don't like your view" and "you're demonstrably wrong" together.

I appreciate the "you're demonstrably wrong" commentary, which downvoting doesn't provide.

[lowmagnet]

I think a lot of us are used to the "bullshit asymmetry principle" and would rather disengage than engage in a handful of fruitless and repeated arguments.

[pfannkuchen]

I believe that principle only holds when the "bullshit" generation is tactical, as opposed to stemming from either confusion, a different sampling of existing facts, or different values. It seems against the spirit of HN to assume the first option?