I love the fact that people with different opinions are all allowed here.

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[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 31 insightful - 5 fun31 insightful - 4 fun32 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

I noticed that in Reddit, I got downvoted each time I had a different idea.
Politically, It was also changing depending on the time-zone.
When dealing with science, it was being downvoted (or banned) when the evidence broke with the popular theories.
The downvoting really reduces the diversity in thinking, and the progress in knowledge.

[–]SaidOverRed 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Since the ranking is comparative, the ability to push up content is the same as the ability to push it down (aside from brigades targeting entries, since they can't upvote everything else to compensate). That anti-brigading is not to be overstated. But the inflation effect is still there, even if smaller. But this seems inevitable when each person has the same voting weight.