Why do we have Insightful/funny over Upvote/Downvote

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[–]dissent 23 insightful - 2 fun23 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Down voting is poison. It let's extremists in a particular community hide your voice.

This way, you have to be ignored at worse or challenged/debated at best.

[–]LukeL 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

that sounds like censorship to me...

[–]lestratege 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You have to be a special kind of snowflake to consider being ignored to be censored... Noone owes you any attention.

[–]_XEAL_ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think so.

It's just that you now have to make the effort of saying something instead of just virtually slapping someone that said something you don't like.

You can even just reply with "faggot", but you have to write something.