I'm amazed how worked up people get about down votes.

I often see downvotes due to people disagreeing or not understanding there can be different perspectives. So yes, I can agree with this very much.

However, it also needs to be stated the up and downvote mechanics are completely open for personal interpretation and there are basically no rules. So everything is fine.

A gentleman doesn't care about downvotes.

My personal standard is I try to upvote people I reply to, since whether I agree or not the fact that I'm replying means that they're engaging at least (I often forget to though). It's lazy to downvote just because you disagree.

Downvoting is an honourable duty of its own though. Especially if something is irrelevant or low effort I wish more people would downvote, it's helping your fellow users.

Someone got big mad rofl

What if someone judtify settler colonialism and genocide

Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them?

I feel like it's okay to downvote abusive or dishonest posts.

TRUMP SHOULD BE ARRESTED

one should rarely downvote but be prepared to downvote. Downvoting a curtesy you do for the community for things that are not just something against your opinion but is stuff no one wants to see. Rude, aggressive, mean swearing or such.

This would probably do better in Unpopular Opinions

There's a bot I downvote on sight. It spams reddit threads to communities it moderates so reporting would be fucking useless. I won't block it because someone has to tell it that it sucks.