No, I understand you, and please don't take this as hostility or an argument. I just want to be clear and sometimes english gets in my way.
No your the one not understanding me.
Where in my post did I say that creating a duplicate account and downvoting older posts do not make them a asshole?
I only said that giving a downvote in general to someone does not automatically make someone a asshole or a troll.
They could simply just disagree with that post.
In your post below you said that a downvote warrants a explanation otherwise they are just trolling and or a asshole.
I pointed out that is not the case.
Yes, because there's this user I can't name because it's against the rules, who just used to downvote everything I said in a page, even if it was a trivial message like "Cool!", or just go 40 pages back in my messages log to downvote 10 or 20 messages.
And the same happened to Ahasverus like 10 days ago, where someone downvoted 130 posts of him in 1 hour.
I am OK with a downvote followed by an explanation. Generally, upvoting implicates "I agree", while downvoting can't simply be just "I don't agree". Agreeing is thinking the same. Disagreeing can be because a lot of reasons.
But more than that, I am OK and very opened to polite and respectful discussion. I even did that with Sumac a little after I joined, and our opinions were so, so different.
So, I'd like to separate things. Downvotes can exist for regular users that use them as a function. I personally believe they require an explanation. Not everyone thinks so.
Downvoting doesn't make someone an asshole.
Massive downvoting and duplicate accounts DOES make anyone who does that an asshole.
Anyway, I believe that, in the end, we are here to talk, not to gain or give points. That's just a fun factor added to the formula. I didn't join because of that, and I will continue to post if that system's gone.
But I was really annoyed by that user, my patience is high, but I have a limit.
Even more, I don't even know what I ever did to him that he needed to go downvoting me so often.
And I feel bad because in that thread we were talking for the first time, and I thought that maybe he finally accepted my opinions for what they are and despite the differences he was willing to talk like everyone else.