Downvotes aren&#x27;t supposed to mean &quot;I disagree&quot;, they are supposed to mean &quot;this doesn&#x27;t contribute anything useful or insightful or discussion-furthering to the thread&quot;<p>Saying &quot;I&#x27;m doing this this weekend!&quot; doesn&#x27;t contribute anything, there&#x27;s no information of value to be gained from it, nothing to learn, nothing to think about. It was a waste of time to post. So it gets downvoted so the rest of us don&#x27;t have to spend a second reading a useless comment.<p>All those useless seconds add up. The downvotes make us all better off in the long run.