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I generally use it for "you're a twat" in general-discussion posts, or "that's actually misleading people" in factual-resource posts. Stuff that doesn't warrant reporting, but I feel should be discouraged nonetheless, by my own personal standards.
Shit takes, unpleasant ideology, aggrieved stupidity, a senseless waste of perfectly good electrons, etc.
It is the crow of jugdement staring back at them.
Disagreeing is fine; I can disagree with people all day and not downvote them over it. Being wrong about stuff doesn't make someone an asshole. However, being an asshole about stuff does frequently make people wrong, which is where the confusion may lie.
Depends on the disagreement. "I don't like shoes that have separate toes". Yeah, okay, that's your choice, I love my VFFs anyways. "I think Jews should be murdered", no, sorry, you don't get to have an opinion about the rights of other people to exist and occupy space.
Exactly my point.
Yeah, I think of downvotes as crowdsourced moderation:
Posts made in bad faith, with a toxic attitude or wildly offtopic get a downvote