That's where I'm at too... some of my most enjoyable and most engaged-with posts have been when I found some post I disagreed with so heartily that I went and wrote an entire 2000 word response post (literally promoting the person through doing so, as well as commenting on their post and upvoting it for visibility)
But hey, that's just me.
Exactly! If someone has an opposing viewpoint, duke it out in the comments or with another post. That would be the mature, adult thing to do.
Well that’s just called being a genuine, decent human being. I’ve seen a couple of people that support this by saying oh well they still make more than some people on hive, meanwhile I know these people have incredibly well-paid jobs. They have no idea what some people go through or how much time and effort some people put into posts and communities and how devastating it is for those people to get their genuine support ripped away from them. People up though and use their up votes to support content they like, it’s essentially robbery.