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Comment author: OrphanWilde 18 February 2016 06:04:40PM 0 points [-]

I'm not proposing a norm, I'm pointing out that this is the norm which is being enforced by this behavior.

Comment author: philh 19 February 2016 02:31:31PM *  0 points [-]

I interpreted you as proposing a norm of "don't downvote downvote-explanations".

If that's not what you're going for, fair enough, but my point still seems relevant: one behaviour encourages bad norms, but the opposite behaviour also encourages bad norms, so we need to be careful.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 19 February 2016 02:35:13PM 0 points [-]

Ah, yes, except I'd see it less as "proposing" and more "supporting a pre-existing norm".

Personally I don't think downvote explanations should be voted on at all, but that would be proposing a new norm.