Why does the down vote exist if not to be used? I don't downvote people just because I disagree, I downvote when they are promoting dangerous ideas.
It's been discussed 6 gorillion times, it's in the user guide and welcome page but here is some copy pasta to explain it.
>Ok. The purpose of the downvoat button is to indicate that a post is spam, off topic, illegal. The purpose is not to indicate disagreement, or dislike of someone's posting. I you disagree, you can articulate why (best option) or just call them a niggerfaggot and move on. If the purpose of downvotes is to indicate that the posting shouldn't be read because it doesn't belong (spam/off topic/anything Aged might have posted on voat) then you do others a disservice by downvoating something simply because you disagree with it. That sort of behavior quickly turns a place into an echochamber.
>Let's take voat as an example. Suppose I had said "I don't think people should call black people "the n word", and they're just as intelligent as us, I don't believe all this IQ nonsense." That view would have been downvoated to oblivion and many people might not have had a chance to see it let alone discuss or correct it. That's not much different than what contemporary reddit does (except those fag jannies also remove the posts). We're better than that. We can win the conversation with ideas and proof. While you and I almost certainly disagree with that, we can indicate that by citing sources of differences of IQ, using the word nigger, or just calling the OP a fag and moving on.
>In this way, the downvote button has a discrete function, more elegant than "I don't like what you've said, but I'm too lazy do do anything about it but hit a button." Anyway, that's my take on it, but you may be better off asking the site owners (sorry for pinging you guys so much, I know you're busy) aou and PMYB2
>Hope that was eli5 enough.
As I said, I'm not downvoting simply because I disagree, my downvote is in the grey areas between spam and disagreement.
If you are spouting objective falsehoods like "jesus was a jew" "ashkenazi 115 average IQ" or promoting hedonism or advocating cowardice then it makes sense to suppress that kind of nonsense.
>I would say, just get along with it and keep a low profile
>Consider yourself as some sort of POW in a forced labor camp. Get along with the program at least on the surface, and everything you do or try to do that goes against it, do it covertly
>No need to attract unwanted attention
>Now of course you can say fuck that shit entirely and face the consequences, and maybe the consequences aren't that a big deal for you, depends of your situation
>Maybe you're that employee that can't be fired just like that because eh, you're special, special enough to be essential, I've known at least one like that
>And maybe you don't give that much of a fuck about that job anyway
Now you're just creating a straw man. This is what he said; what objective falsehood did he make? none. @0K put out a reasoned opinion suggesting that he could go either way depending on his specific situation. It's fine that you disagreed with it, but it's clearly not spam, illegal, or off topic.
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