I sometimes post news articles that examine possible problems in society. Some may agree with the author, some may disagree. I often see these posts being downvoted if many disagree with the author.

Why do you downvote the post instead of commenting to express your disagreement?

As far as I understand, the idea is to upvote the post to spur conversation and comment to express your agreement or disagreement. Or did I misunderstand something?

  • deegeese
    754·
    10 months ago

    Downvote disinformation. If someone’s going on about Trans bathrooms or Hunter Biden I know they’re not interested in truth.

    • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
      24·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, this is usually the reason I will downvote a news article. Misinformation needs to be marked somehow, and a negative score is a good way to do that.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      report it. So far the mods have seemed to take them down reasonably quickly. for example, that incel guy in !politics… (and here,)

      I still recommend down voting in the meantime, but, yeah.