I’ve seen a lot of posts that don’t have as many upvotes as they should. I don’t think much of the community understands what the upvote and downvote mean. I think I need to explain what exactly they do first. They sort of add and subtract points on the leaderboard of posts. Upvotes add a vote to the post, increasing the number until it gets more than another post, raising it above that post. The downvote is used the same way, but it lowers the number. Decreasing the amount of votes, thus lowering the post. This makes it get less viewers, and therefore less attention. The downvote is not there so you can dislike a post, well not exactly. It’s there more to dislike a post than to dislike the authors opinion. But what is it truly for? It is so if people find the argument/post something to be non important, sloppy, useless, or overall unappealing. It’s not so you can hide the posts you disagree with, but to hide what no one wants. Choose instead to upvote a post you have an argument for, so it gains viewership and others can debate as well. Informatively, Dagorthan.