I usually don’t upvote or downvote mainly based on agreement, so there may be even less information about agreement than you might think!
I have upvoted quite a few posts where I disagree with the main conclusion or other statements within it, when those posts are generally informative or entertaining or otherwise worth reading. I have downvoted a lot of posts with conclusions I generally agreed with but were poorly written, repetitive, trivial, boring, overbearing, used flawed arguments, or other qualities that I don’t like to see in posts on this site.
A post that said nothing but “blue is the best colour” would definitely get a downvote from me for being both trivial and lacking any support for the position, even if I personally agree. I would at very least want to know by what criteria it was considered “best” along with some supporting evidence for why those criteria were generally relevant and that it actually does meet those criteria better than anything else.
Interesting—I never downvote based on being poorly written, repetitive, trivial, or boring. I do downvote for a hostile-seeming tone accompanied by a wrong or poorly-thought-through argument. I’ll disagreevote if I confidently disagree.
“Blue is the best color” was meant as a trivial example of a statement where there’s a lot of alternative “things that could be true” if the statement were false, not as an example of a good comment.
I usually don’t upvote or downvote mainly based on agreement, so there may be even less information about agreement than you might think!
I have upvoted quite a few posts where I disagree with the main conclusion or other statements within it, when those posts are generally informative or entertaining or otherwise worth reading. I have downvoted a lot of posts with conclusions I generally agreed with but were poorly written, repetitive, trivial, boring, overbearing, used flawed arguments, or other qualities that I don’t like to see in posts on this site.
A post that said nothing but “blue is the best colour” would definitely get a downvote from me for being both trivial and lacking any support for the position, even if I personally agree. I would at very least want to know by what criteria it was considered “best” along with some supporting evidence for why those criteria were generally relevant and that it actually does meet those criteria better than anything else.
Interesting—I never downvote based on being poorly written, repetitive, trivial, or boring. I do downvote for a hostile-seeming tone accompanied by a wrong or poorly-thought-through argument. I’ll disagreevote if I confidently disagree.
“Blue is the best color” was meant as a trivial example of a statement where there’s a lot of alternative “things that could be true” if the statement were false, not as an example of a good comment.