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I've mostly just found that having downvotes ends up discouraging discussion (which is often the states reason for disabling them). With passive media that is already the normal state.
I only subbed to interests/hobbies and low-volume cute stuff, so I didn't really get the full effect. I've seen it used to make a disliked-by-some valid point disappear, but maybe 1-4 times a year? It certainly wasn't high on my list of Reddit vexes.
Yeah, it's not something I really saw in small communities, but once things get to what I'd think of as medium sized it started to be a problem.