I sometimes post news articles that examine possible problems in society. Some may agree with the author, some may disagree. I often see these posts being downvoted if many disagree with the author.

Why do you downvote the post instead of commenting to express your disagreement?

As far as I understand, the idea is to upvote the post to spur conversation and comment to express your agreement or disagreement. Or did I misunderstand something?

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    1 year ago

    Why do you downvote the post instead of commenting to express your disagreement?

    Because in order to hide a post you need to vote on it and seeing as votes are meaningless why not hit the down vote?