I agree with you that avoiding downvotes doesn&#x27;t promote healthy discussion. However, I take exception to someone pre-empting downvotes - to me personally, it comes across as a challenge to disagree and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s helpful to a healthy discussion either.<p>If someone writes something without thinking about whether they&#x27;ll be upvoted or downvoted, then that&#x27;s great, even if I disagree with them. But writing with the explicit assumption that you&#x27;ll be downvoted suggests that you&#x27;re being contrarian.