Comment Re:slashdot? (Score 1) 467
"There's a difference between disagreeing and actually having an invalid, inaccurate or flaming comment."
Sometimes even if a post is worded nicely, the disagreement can be so absurd that you might as well mod it down, because the person is either trolling or so ignorant as to provide no value to the conversation.
For example, sometimes I see posts in global climate change threads that are the equivalent to saying "The sun revolves around the earth", and they are modded +5 insightful because of ideology, not scientific accuracy. I have no problems modding those types of posts down, even if they seem like a mere disagreement to the lay person.