text: quotes. why on earth do people give thumbs down to the person? who found out the real author or could finish the quote ? i think that is mean ! some people don't understand the question, or they think it should have gotten a different answer.  sometimes they may have had a different answer, or they provided a little extra info and they're annoyed that their answer wasn't selected as "best."  in some cases, they may have meant to click somewhere else and just happened to click the thumbs-down.  i don't think it's worth getting excited about.  edit...  i looked further in your questions and i found a couple of quotes that had mixed "up" and "down" votes -- i think the people voting thumbs down were just playing around, with no logical reason to disagree with the answer.