I interpreted you as proposing a norm of “don’t downvote downvote-explanations”.
If that’s not what you’re going for, fair enough, but my point still seems relevant: one behaviour encourages bad norms, but the opposite behaviour also encourages bad norms, so we need to be careful.
I’m not proposing a norm, I’m pointing out that this is the norm which is being enforced by this behavior.
I interpreted you as proposing a norm of “don’t downvote downvote-explanations”.
If that’s not what you’re going for, fair enough, but my point still seems relevant: one behaviour encourages bad norms, but the opposite behaviour also encourages bad norms, so we need to be careful.
Ah, yes, except I’d see it less as “proposing” and more “supporting a pre-existing norm”.
Personally I don’t think downvote explanations should be voted on at all, but that would be proposing a new norm.