Tired of Stack Overflow
I really think it&#x27;s better to just have an up vote arrow and no down vote option, for questions at least. The only reason on a site like that to really vote something down should be if something is off topic or against the rules, in which case you have a report button. If a question just straight up doesn&#x27;t interest you or you don&#x27;t want to answer it, then ignoring it rather than voting it down seems like the reasonable response. I also know that since visibility is based on how your score matches up to others, some people will just go and vote down every other recent question so theirs stands out more (unless stack overflow has protection against such things, I know it happens on similar sites)<p>I can maybe see an argument for answers to questions being down vote-able, since people may sometimes give answers that are wrong&#x2F;misleading but maybe not to such a degree that they deserve to be expunged by moderators.