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Downvote = “I think this should be a little lower in the sort priority”
It’s the opposite of an upvote.
Yep same, purely for what I want to see higher/lower in the sort
I feel that should be balanced with: this is appropriate here so I won't downvote it, even if it's irrelevant to me.
... I suppose for big communities that averages out so it's okay, but maybe not for small
Yeah true! I guess there's some subtle complexities to it
Like if you downvote everything you don’t upvote, it almost doesn’t have an effect because all those things are equally bearing one new downvote and hence don’t change sort precedence with each other.