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Downvoting should be reserved for posts that do not contribute to the discussion, not used to express disagreement. The purpose of votes isn't to win a battle o
by rntz 11y ago
Downvoting should be reserved for posts that do not contribute to the discussion, not used to express disagreement. The purpose of votes isn't to win a battle of beliefs, but to promote insightful discussion.
Honestly I think HN would be better without downvoting at all.
- noobermin 11y agoThis has been discussed before it looks like[0], but at least pg[1] has stated that he sees downvoting for expressing disagreement is acceptable. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760275 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
- simoncion 11y ago> Honestly I think HN would be better without downvoting at all. I don't entirely agree with this statement. If you're going to be doing threaded conversations, having a system that can influence the sort order of those conversations isn't necessarily a bad thing. I've been thinking about HN's downvotes for a while now, and I kinda think -based on my overwhelmingly positive experience with the Pre-SJW Metafilter- that HN should either have strict time-based ordering for threads with up/downvotes only serving to give you Whuffie, or have up/downvotes control sort order, but not grey out comments that are below 1.