note wazoox <p>I disagree completely with you, and I have two examples of other communities where downvotes exist and work well:</p> <ul><li>reddit</li> <li>hacker news</li> </ul> <p>It's too bad that it's not possible to take back a downvote on PM, though, like you can on reddit (but not on hacker news; furthermore HN small arrows make it very easy to miss, particularly on touch devices).</p> <p>I didn't downvote you, because I don't downvote people I disagree with on matters of opinion, and I think it's wrong to downvote you for this. However, downvotes are extremely useful to express the "crowd wisdom" on <em>technically wrong</em> messages. I don't think you to be technically wrong, only misguided.</p> 940809 940809