So this website and its community, the purpose of which is ostensibly to call out all the retarded shit going on in the world, can't handle being called out for doing retarded shit itself? We just have to accept that it's going to continue being retarded? But be nice about it and pretend that it's fine? Punishing people for using the **DOWNVOTE** button to **VOTE** things **DOWN** is retarded. There's no two ways about it. Coming up with such a policy is retarded. Supporting such a policy is retarded. Pretending it's not retarded, is retarded. Doubling down and refusing to fix it is retarded. This has nothing to do with Voat. That button has the same function and purpose on the entire internet. It's in the fucking name. It's right there, when you hover over it. Downvote. Down. Vote. Not "report spam". Down. Vote. Cast a vote. To make it go down. Down. Vote. But here you are, virtue signaling about your compliance, pretending things aren't what they are, wagging your finger at those who dare question the prevailing doctrine of the day, telling us we better start pretending too. The irony of all this seems lost on you. Maybe that's because you're a retard.