But why should things other than <i>the article directly linked to</i> matter? Why should it be acceptable to downvote an otherwise interesting and correct article just because of the source?<p>That smacks of voting for ideological correctness over truth or interestingness, a problem that otherwise intelligent people should be able to look past. What makes this site meaningfully different from the front page of Reddit if people will crap on an article because it comes from a source that doesn&#x27;t align with their politics?