I think I’ve settled on the latter. Disagreement is maybe best communicated by the absence of an upvote? And downvotes work best when they signal something that is just off base, and while not reportable, is not appreciated at a broad cultural level.

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    Upvotes mean “people should see this”. Downvotes mean “there is no reason for anyone to see this”.

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      Yep. I’ll up vote news of a hate crime or something, but downvote things that are directly hateful.

      Context always matters and a lot of the big sites fail to understand the difference between talking about things like racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia and somone being those things.