Quick Survey:Do you enjoy being downvoted?

NO

The amount of downvotes spammed is proof people are heartless.
No, I don't like being downvoted.

Let the downvotes flow:
WARNING: DOWNVOTING MAY(WILL) RESULT IN COUGHING, FEVER AND RELATED SYMPTOMS TO RECENT COVID-19 OUTBREAK

Oh man, getting down-voted gives me a massive fucking erection.

I think the downvote is lazy.
You disagree with this guy but you are too lazy to communicate what your points are, may be you dont even have a point.
So you just downvote someone.

What the proper use of the up and down vote then? I don't know, may be someone have REALLY good point.

But, what is a bad idea? That is hard to have consensus.

Neither point value has any significance at all. You get downvoted to hell. Okay, your post is hidden. You get upvoted to heaven.. nothing happens. The only consequence for low karma is the inability to participate in that system.

At best, it just saves the forum from "I agree" spam.

I LOVE IT!

quote: It's anti-discussion and basically encourages the formation of long standing "shared opinion cliques".

Does it though? My experience is that lots of people express widely varying opinions. Many of them are not downvoted and those that are often don't seem to be dissuaded by it. Even, perhaps, in cases where they should be.

It gives us a way to express approval/disapproval of something without having to make a pedestrian one sentence post about it.

Why should people care about your thoughts if you write an essay about them? Level of elaboration isn't what defines whenever someone will care about your input or not. What defines that is how important your input is to them.

In the context of Zero-K, the devs generally care about how the players feel about the game. They don't care only about those that write essays about their opinions, although those tend to attract more attention to their ideas for obvious reasons.