And the second options feels like: "omg, we can't take any criticism; we have become a cult just like some people have always accused us!".
You mean "the second option is disabled". which would leave upvote or ignore.
True, but I guess some people were doing this even before the downvotes were disables. Or sometimes we had a wave of downvotes first, then someone saying "hey, this contains some valid criticism, so I am going to upvote it, because we shouldn't just hide the criticism", then a wave of contrarian upvotes, then a meta-debate... eh.
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