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Are the downvotes in the room with you right now?
Pixels on a screen denoting disagreement are harmless and if you feel otherwise maybe you should go touch grass to improve your mental health.
The point of the voting system is to decide which posts are seen by more or fewer people.
If you downvote a perfectly good post, you're stopping people from seeing it. You cannot try to justify that by pretending it's harmless.
That might be your reason for the voting system. That doesn’t make it everyone else’s reason.
A downvote doesn’t stop people from seeing a post. They just have to scroll farther. Also your definition of “a perfectly good post” might not be the same as mine or someone else’s.
The software does, where the vast majority of all lemmy/mbin/piefed users will have their feeds and pages affected by how people vote. I don't think you can escape the reality that regardless of what your opinion on voting is, there is a tangible effect independent of your beliefs.