Downvote are an important method for controlling misinformation. We do need better info in side bars informing users what the button is for and what it is not for
Wasn’t twitter really good about banning actual Nazis and not banning journalists until Musk came along? After Musk came, Nazis were unbanned and we saw a huge wave of journalists getting banned.
Because that’s the nature of FOSS. The good news is, if they trained on you data that’s licensed CC BY-SA (as all SO content is), then you can request their source code, and they legally must provide it.
Mods should be banning people who downvote content that is well-cited and high effort
I haven’t even seen an instance with a sidebar that explains what the downvote button is for.
It has gotten much worse in the past year, but I blame the instance admins and mods for not even trying to educate their users