I want to express my agreement with @ToucheSir, I have the exactly same feeling. I understand that some kind of dislike button (that after some number of dislikes hides the message) ends up producing echo chambers. However, sometimes a post is intentionally inflammatory, and answering to it or even pointing out its tone is already giving the troll what they want, i.e., wasting the time and energy of multiple members of the community. The only way to conserve the community energy here is to give an effortless signal of “do not engage, this does not seem to be in good faith” to the rest of the community. Which is often done by means of a dislike button.
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