[Sohcahtoa82]

Downvoting pushes peoples comments down and greys them out, effectively silencing them. It creates echo chambers.

I reserve my downvotes for when arguments are made in bad faith, rely on logical fallacies, or present know-false information as an argument.

If someone presents an argument on something I disagree with, but it's made in good faith and is well-structured, it deserves an upvote, even if I still disagree afterwards.

[otterley]

Your very comment is now downvoted but not silenced. We all see it, as we do every grey comment, as long as one works their way down the comments page. Not every comment is going to be agreed with and rise above the fold, and that’s ok.

[MrMcCall]

So you understand how echo chambers are created and are fine with it?

The problem is that there is no one with power here that can come to the "little guy's" defence. There is no will around here for that kind of support, because the only people hired to wield such power are of like mind. DJT doesn't hire democrats, and this is no different.

Look at this comment section, and tell me this isn't an echo chamber.

[otterley]

I don’t understand what your response has to do with what I said. Differing opinions are welcome here—particularly if they are eloquently expressed and factually supported—but that doesn’t mean they will be popular. That’s just life. Opinions, like most things, follow a normal distribution.

[MrMcCall]

> Not every comment is going to be agreed with and rise above the fold, and that’s ok.

> That's just life.

Life is the result of what we choose, alone and in our groups, and groupthink creates a momentum that is hard to understand from within the group.

Only compassion gives us a clear and accurate perspective on life, my friend.

And that's a fact, and its not being a factor in this site's m.o. is precisely why it is the way it is, why it is staffed by whom it's staffed by, and why its founder has the Twitter profile picture he does and why he rails against DEI.

It's also why your opinions are so valued here, and why you don't understand what I said.

Perhaps you won't be so privleged some day and then you will begin to really understand what life is really about.

Without such a gift from life, you will most likely just continue to think you understand, while asking far fewer questions than you should.

What role does compassion play in your life? That is the most genius question you can ever ask yourself, and is really the only one worth either asking or answering.

That fact is never accepted as truth by those who already "know it all". Such is the way of "facts". Unless your knowledge base is founded upon compassion, nothing truly eloquent will be perceived as such. Such is human life, my friend. All the rest is just mammalian, when it comes to human beings in their groups.

Is your group founded on compassion? That you don't value it does not mean it is not the most valuable concept in the universe.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi

[Suppafly]

>Downvoting pushes peoples comments down and greys them out

I don't see how that's a problem. People that agree with them can upvote them and ungrey them out and push them back up.