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  • Sometimes. I think the meaning of the arrows are somewhat contextual.

    Downvoting spam for example isn’t “disagreement”, but it is a kind of disapproval.

    Upvoting your post isn’t “agreement”, but I do it because I think it’s an interesting question (maybe a kind of approval)?

    If we generalized I guess we could ask whether upvotes are always relating positive emotion (approval, agreement, joy, etc.) and downvotes always relating negative emotion (disagreement, disapproval, anger, etc.)?

    That is, are upvotes “yays” and downvotes “boos”?