Since the start of Poal there has been a stated policy that "The Down Vote button is not a disagree button" and I think that policy, along with making down votes public, have solved many problems that I seen on other sites. I have also heard other Poal users say "Down voting is only for spam and doxxing only" but I have always felt that this was not the appropriate interpretation of the "The Down Vote button is not a disagree button" philosophy. I have always felt that "not a disagree button" is the important part and "for spam and doxxing only" was an overly restrictive guideline that ignores some very valid reasons why we should down vote. The down vote button should be used for "Bad Content" of which doxxing and spam are two types. I would also down vote illegal content as well as any content that sexualizes minors. I am coming to the conclusion that I think that it would also be valid to down vote for content that is behind a paywall or a login. This hearkens back to the early days of the web when you would do a search and half of the links were AOL links that you could not view. If you post content here that I cannot actually view without doxxing myself to some third party, then I think that is bad content and should be down voted.