Well ideally that’s how downvoting should work yes. In practice it’s abused a lot as a “I disagree” button.

Honestly, I don’t even like the downvote/upvote system because it promotes censorship and a lot of the times it’s just an agree/disagree button. I feel that no matter how right or wrong someone is, they should always be able to express their opinion in a civil manner (obviously there are mods for removing rule breaking posts/comments). Downvoting just kills any discussion.

I made the mistake of not doing this. I was so fed up with reddit that I had to get off there ASAP.

Well said.