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But up/downvoting isn't supposed to be based on how you feel about the comment but whether it adds value to the site.
by SixSigma 11y ago
But up/downvoting isn't supposed to be based on how you feel about the comment but whether it adds value to the site.
- DanBC 11y agoWho says?
- djhn 11y agoCommon sense, convention, HN rules?
- DanBC 11y agoWhat HN rules?
- djhn 11y agoMy bad, like Six Sigma above said, the guidelines do not include such rule. Since HN evolved /co-evolved with reddit and follows many of the conventions even more strictly, I thought this is also an HN rule. Intuitively, it also makes sense - 'upvoting', or irl aknowledging things you disagree with is how you would aknowledge that you see the opposing argument as valid, and will address the disagreement in a response. As opposed to downvoting, or irl ignoring, comments that fall so far out of scope of civil debate and are not constructive.
- SixSigma 11y agoI thought it said that in the guidelines [1] but I was wrong https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html