I do think you might be breaking the guidelines of the site - downvote should not be used just for disagreement, or?
Well, it's not mentioned in the guidelines, and there's a bunch of people who do use downvote to disagree. There's a few posts from PG; one where he says that people upvote to agree so it's understandable that they downvote to disagree, and others where he sees it as a problem to be addressed.
It's probably a good idea for people to upvote any posts they think have been unfairly downvoted. This sometimes happens, but probably not often enough.
1. a downvote button, which is available to everyone, but affects only the ranking on the comment list (no graying out due to too many downvotes)
2. a "flag" button, which is available to people with higher karma and serves for moderating.
...because, it seems perfectly human to want to express disagreement with a downvote. I can totally get it, and would/will probably have a hard time restraining myself ^^
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Well, it's not mentioned in the guidelines, and there's a bunch of people who do use downvote to disagree. There's a few posts from PG; one where he says that people upvote to agree so it's understandable that they downvote to disagree, and others where he sees it as a problem to be addressed.
It's probably a good idea for people to upvote any posts they think have been unfairly downvoted. This sometimes happens, but probably not often enough.
Maybe downvotes could be split in two.
1. a downvote button, which is available to everyone, but affects only the ranking on the comment list (no graying out due to too many downvotes)
2. a "flag" button, which is available to people with higher karma and serves for moderating.
...because, it seems perfectly human to want to express disagreement with a downvote. I can totally get it, and would/will probably have a hard time restraining myself ^^