For what it’s worth, when I arrived here it became pretty clear to me pretty quickly that a downvote is intended to mean “I want less of this sort of thing.”
That some people want less disagreement is perhaps unfortunate, and perhaps not, but in neither case is it necessarily a sign of confusion, and further clarification may not help. This may be a case, rather, of values in opposition.
For what it’s worth, when I arrived here it became pretty clear to me pretty quickly that a downvote is intended to mean “I want less of this sort of thing.”
That some people want less disagreement is perhaps unfortunate, and perhaps not, but in neither case is it necessarily a sign of confusion, and further clarification may not help. This may be a case, rather, of values in opposition.