Its literally in the site user guide. >At Poal, we believe the down vote is not a "I disagree button". >>We'd rather engage in a counter argument with the post/comment we disagree with, >and use down votes for spam (you can report to admins) and off topic trolls. Except I didn't tattle to admin. I stated my opinion on the matter. If people don't like how things are done here then they shouldn't be here.