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Is it right to down-vote someone and not leave an argument?

Is it ok to down-vote someone and then not leave a response? It seems it has been happening a lot, especially to the top 10 debaters.

I say nay!

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I say yay!

Side Score: 7
3 points

I have not down voted an argument in about 200 days, it seems rather pointless and makes you look like a prick.

As for the arguments I have down voted, a lot of them were against people who down vote my arguments without responding. So it was basically a reaction down vote. A few were because I thought the argument had more up votes then it deserved and I was too lazy to respond. The rest were against people who I hated with a passion and always traded down votes just for the hell of it.

As for whether down voting without responding is justified it depends on what the argument is. If the argument has no intellectual value or the person is just going out of their way to troll then I see no problem in down voting the argument. I remember last year when some prick wrote that Hitler was not as evil as Truman I down voted him because such stupid comments do not deserve responses.

If it is a well thought out argument then it should not be down voted at all even if you do reply. Just people a person has a different view then you do does not mean that their view is any less correct.

Side: depends

It is quite obvious that they only disagree with the statement and choose to be cowardly because they have no rebuttal.

Side: I say nay!
2 points

Usually, it is quite obvious. If anybody writes a conservative or a religious argument (even on a conservative or a religious debate), they will be down-voted by those who disagree.

In an ironic twist, the conservatives and the religious folks rarely bother to down-vote opposing viewpoints.

Side: I say nay!
2 points

Usually, it is quite obvious. If anybody writes a conservative or a religious argument (even on a conservative or a religious debate), they will be down-voted by those who disagree.

That's not true for religious debates. I'm an Agnostic and my arguments go up and down during religious debates. I've had one argument that has been up voted 8 times and down voted 4 times. So Conservatives do down vote.

For economic and foreign policy topics it is rather clear that the lefties are the ones doing the down voting.

In an ironic twist, the conservatives and the religious folks rarely bother to down-vote opposing viewpoints.

Joe and Jake used to be famous for downvoting arguments and they were the main conservatives a year ago.

But there does seem to be a coalition of lefties who are constantly up voting their friends' arguments and down voting the ones they disagree.

Side: I say nay!
1 point

Oh terminator, how quick you are to judge.

Click on your reward points and click on mine. On both it allows you to see how many times you have downvoted someone. In the past 11 days it says that I have downvoted three people, whereas you have downvoted three people in the last 3 days. Now maybe I'm just a very rare moral, liberal atheist and you're a bad example of the upstanding conservative religious person, but I think it's more likely you're just being a hypocrite who likes to cry about people downvoting him because he can't accept that he makes bad arguments.

Side: I say yay!

Did I name you specifically?

I don't care about myself being down-voted - but only if that down-vote is a 'fluke', so to speak - what I dislike is when nigh every conservative/religious argument gets down-voted and nigh every liberal/atheist argument gets up-voted.

Look through some of the religious debates. Somebody wrote 'yes' to an atheistic comment - that's it, just 'yes' - and he got up-voted once or twice. That is what I dislike.

Perhaps, even, is it possible that I now down-vote only because of how frequently it is done to those who share the viewpoints of my arguments?

Side: I say yay!

You should leave advice on how to fix that person arguments not just to down-vote him/her just because you don't like that person.

Side: I say nay!
1 point

If you disagree with someone, you might as well not waste your time. Just vote up people you agree with.

Side: I say nay!
2 points

It is cowardly imao. I'm am tired so I'm not gonna write any more, have fun children.

Remember, use protection and always put a sock on the door nob? Wait? What? Forget that!

Side: I say yay!
Houston(187) Disputed
1 point

Oops, this was supposed to go in "I say yay!".

The minimum length for an argument is 50 characters. The purpose of this restriction is to cut down on the amount of dumb jokes, so we can keep the quality of debate and discourse as high as possible.

Side: I say nay!
1 point

It's annoying and rude but I see no moral wrong in doing so. Maybe they disagree but simply have no time to post an argument?

Side: I say yay!
1 point

Well, in most cases, it is bad...

However, if you have avery strong reason for believing the one you vote down to be wrong, but you cannot form this opinion into words (how many times has this happened to you?), then you should be right in down voting

Side: depends
1 point

people of this fine web site. have we gone astray??@?@@?@? why do you think we get points? so we can show them off to others? despicable if you say yes, we have points to use as ammunition to down vote others! that is the only reason, so i say cock lock and ready to rock.

Side: I say yay!
wolfbite(432) Disputed
1 point

The problem is not with the idea of down voting, but rather how cowards down vote without responding.

By downvoting an argument what you are basically doing is saying that the person's argument is a load of shit. By not responding you are saying that the person's argument is a load of shit but you're too much of an idiot to say why.

Side: I say nay!