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Downvoting needs to go away. Upvoting a good comment is a positive action. Downvoting is a power trip, and in many ways protectionist and exclusive. I've seen t
by themartorana 11y ago
Downvoting needs to go away. Upvoting a good comment is a positive action. Downvoting is a power trip, and in many ways protectionist and exclusive. I've seen too many comments downvoted based on unpopular opinions which were perfectly constructive and appropriately toned.
People are very happy to exercise their ability to punish others when given that power. It's gotten out of hand here.
Edit: here being HN, not necessarily this thread.
- dang 11y agoCan you give us links to "perfectly constructive and appropriately toned" comments that are in a downvoted state? What you're saying doesn't match what I typically observe on HN, which is (a) that most downvoted comments have something wrong with them, not just an unpopular opinion, and (b) inappropriate downvotes usually get canceled out be users who see a good comment faded faded and give it a corrective upvote.