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IMO, the downvote option is a good feature of this forum, and I have more downvotes (percentage-wise) than most forum members. I don't assume vindictiveness with the downvotes, though it's a possibility.

Downvoting helps to ease arguments, since a downvote can be given instead of argument. Otherwise, this thread would probably be even more contentious.

However, I upvoted Alaric's post #109 on this thread, because it made sense.

I don’t have a problem with the idea per se, but this system on Cathinfo leaves much to be desired. I know, for a fact, that approximately 80% of my downvotes are from Croix under various pseudonyms. If the system only allowed someone to give say 5 downvotes a day to a particular member or if their name was attached to their vote, it would be a great improvement.  One good thing that has come out of this is my reluctance to give others downvotes too hastily. (I just gave you an upvote to make up for any downvotes I gave you in the past. 😀)

I hope you understand that a few of us might be concerned about your above post, Ladislaus.

Your actions, which included the threat of not posting again until Poche was banned, show that you  believe that you have a certain amount of power here. That is a bit disconcerting, since now you are saying that you want someone else to be banned.

I have zero "power" here.  Matthew has always been perfectly free to ignore me, and could have let me gone my way.  He banned me for a few months a while back.  I was making a statement about the gravity of the heresies that poche regularly promoted, things that have been repeatedly condemned by the Church's Magisterium.  He's been caught lying, to the point of slandering St. Pius X as a partisan of his errors.  He refused to explain, when requested, where was coming from (what he believed about the Crisis), and so there was no reason to consider him anything but a Modernist troll whose motivation was to wreak havoc on a Traditional Catholic forum.  Pertinacious propagation of heresy is no light matter, and I was calling attention to how grave a thing it was to allow him continue operating as a purveyor of heresy.  It's important that we not become desensitized to how grave a thing heresy is.  It's easy to just brush it off, "Oh, that's just poche being poche again."  That is simply not the Catholic attitude toward heresy.  Heresy is a matter of life and death, and that is why the Church regularly encouraged the execution of heretics throughout her history.

I never said that I wanted claudel banned, only making a statement that if this were my forum, I would have banned him over the exceedingly vulgar comments (a puerile insult).  This was more a statement agreeing with 2Vermont that his comments were "Disgusting".  I couldn't agree more.