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Courtesy notice- When you downvote people who claim their downvotes (i.e. they say that they downvoted and give the reason why) you don't discourage downvoting, you discourage the claiming of downvotes.
Personally, I appreciate people claiming downvotes even when I disagree with them, because I know that whenever I see the little number on the upper-right of my page go down, I always wish I knew why. I'm sure that there are others that dislike the claiming of downvotes, but I get the feeling that some people might just not have thought about it too hard before they downvoted (hence this notice).
So even though I disagreed with zir, I upvoted Rhwawn's claiming of a downvote (Edit: Currently sitting at -3), but also upvoted SkyDK's rebuttal (which I DO agree with). I would like to encourage other people who appreciate people claiming downvotes to do the same.
When the primary purpose of a comment is a criticism, adding "Downvoted, " doesn't improve the comment, it makes it worse.
Comments that give an explanation of a downvote when it is requested are a different matter entirely.
The thing is, if someone does two things A and B with the same post, and I endorse A and reject B, I need to decide which matters more. If wanting less B is more important to me than wanting more A, I should downvote. The fact that I endorse A and want more of it doesn't change that.
If a downvote will discourage A more than it discourages B, maybe not.
I assume here A is "explaining downvotes" and B is "downvoting something I like", and I agree with daenerys that downvoting Rhawn's post will just encourage future downvotes to be silent.