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By the way, it's against the guidelines to talk about being downvoted, that will explain further flagging of your post.
by microcolonel 11y ago
By the way, it's against the guidelines to talk about being downvoted, that will explain further flagging of your post.
- tangled_zans 11y agoThanks for letting me know. Feel free to share this fact with all the other people crying for their free speech being taken away.
- microcolonel 11y agoYou should know that on HN you're speaking with the voice of the platform. You have a right to your own voice; they have a right not to give you theirs. Usually though, the rationale for "downvoting" (really flagging) is that somebody is being unreasonably negative. I think it's rare that a well-researched non-disparaging comment is flagged more than a couple times. We have all said things on HN that have been flagged, we all know it feels bad. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be moderation.
- tangled_zans 11y agoReplying here cos I can't reply to your other comment. Either I have been so bad at communicating my point that it came out as garbled nonsense or you've confused me with someone else. I am all for people being able to downvote whoever they want without needing to explain themselves. The only reason I mentioned being downvoted at all - by 1 guy, I think - was to point out that the same people complaining that they are being "unfairly downvoted for having controversial opinions" have no qualms about downvoting people with opposing views. Which, in my eyes, is hypocritical.