Should the downvote button exist in comments here?

I get downvoted fairly frequently and I don't mind. Sometimes it helps make my point, typically around censorship. It will be bad for another year or two but the Overton window is sliding back towards the middle and hopefully we can get back to people having opinions that differ from the mainstream not being reflexabily punished on sight. I vote in favor of downvotes.

If the term were "Disagree" rather than "Downvote", the atmosphere would be more civil. Also, this would encourage more temperate minded folks to express themselves, and I think that would be more informative. As it is, "Downvote" tends to smear both sides of an issue rather than open a discussion attempting to understand and moderate the issue.

There's a down vote? I'm only aware of the up arrow and the minus sign.

I’m not sure what it means to say we “need” that or not. but you could say the same of no downvotes, “do we need another twitter?”

Are emotional upvotes a problem, or just the downvotes?