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Every day I see the top comment in a thread being a typical middlebrow dismissal, the type that adds nothing to the discussion. With that in mind, it's really s
by oskarth 11y ago
Every day I see the top comment in a thread being a typical middlebrow dismissal, the type that adds nothing to the discussion. With that in mind, it's really surprising to me that this comment was downvoted. Before I upvoted it, it was grey, and after I upvoted, it was still grey. Who are these people who downvote a perfectly good comment like this? It puzzles my mind.
At the time of writing this comment, at least 10 comments in this thread were grey. There are a lot of comments in this thread being downvoted for no particular reason - moderators, what's going on?
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- omegaham 11y agoI see this on Reddit every now and then - there are people who downvote everyone in a thread just for gits and shiggles. I make a point of upvoting grayed-out posts that I like, so hopefully they'll go right back to black soon.
- song 11y agoI wonder if it would make sense for the system to ignore downvotes from users with a high proportion of indiscriminate downvotes.
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoI did it in retaliation to the person(s) who downvoted someone speaking well of Microsoft products. If you really want to see how petty people can be, try being a Microsoft fan around here.
- oskarth 11y agoI appreciate the honesty and the predicament for someone who likes Microsoft, but surely you can see how this type of pettiness and retaliation is bad for the community? Be better than the Apple fanboys ;)
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoThe comments that I downvoted turned a little grey and weren't even moved downwards much, so it's probably not that bad for the community. Thanks for your advice, but I find that shoving people's bad behavior right in their face by doing things back to them is a much more effective tool against assholes than just letting them be.
- dang 11y ago> shoving people's bad behavior right in their face That is not a legitimate way to use Hacker News. Neither is downvoting a good comment because of someone else's bad comments. And I'm dismayed to see that several of your recent comments here have been uncivil. Please don't do these things. If people behave badly because other people do, what hope is there of improving this community? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoTalking about downvotes is also frowned upon, so please don't do that either. Thank you.
- dang 11y agoBelieve me, I don't like writing these any more than you like reading them. Please just follow the rules so neither of us will have to.
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoIf most other people are following the rules, I will certainly follow them. Given that dependency, I can't guarantee anything though.
- dang 11y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10174991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10174991 and marked it off topic.
- oskarth 11y agoWoaha, I didn't know you could do that. In the future, when there are suspicious downvotes, where do you want the community to report it? In-thread like this or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com or by some other means? Thanks for your hard work and for a perfect response, as usual!
- dang 11y agoThanks—that's nice of you to say. You should definitely email that kind of thing to hn@ycombinator.com, because then (a) we're guaranteed to see it, and (b) it won't dilute the threads.