No, if downvoting means to disagree, one wants to know why.
If one wants to provide why, there are replies for that.
It’s a qualitative instrument, making it quantitative will change the use. Meanwhile, abuse always finds a way.
If one wants to provide why, there are replies for that.
It’s a qualitative instrument, making it quantitative will change the use. Meanwhile, abuse always finds a way.
Downvoting is simply that, IMHO, nothing more and nothing less than "I disagree with you".
So why is it tied to a quality of a post? You can simply reply you don’t agree. But that takes effort, so you downvote. But if you reply, that has no measurable value to tie to the quality of a post, even though words carry more meaning.
So somewhere your disagreement to something is perceived differently if you reply vs if you just downvote.
Downvoting is not simply downvoting, friend.