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[Noumenon72]

I didn't share the site's unstated assumption that making comments that people upvote isn't being a "contributor to the community".

You can control downvoting for disagreement by explicitly stating a norm against it, as StackOverflow does with alt text over the downvote and Reddit does with Reddiquette.

I don't believe I had had a comment downvoted before this one expressing disagreement with downvoters. However, I have found that many downvoted comments do contribute to the discussion, and even earn my upvote about 25% of the time. I don't think the downvote inner circle has a wholly positive effect on the site.

[dang → Noumenon72]

Yes, it's good to give a comment a corrective upvote when it has been unfairly downvoted. That's one of the main ways the system self-regulates.

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