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I don't think HN is monocultural, at least to a pathological extent. There's quite a bit of debate here. The overwhelming majority of grayed out comments are ba

I don't think HN is monocultural, at least to a pathological extent. There's quite a bit of debate here. The overwhelming majority of grayed out comments are baseless, off-topic, or unnecessarily inflammatory, from my perspective. I think that's because there's a norm to agree with an upvote, disagree with a non-vote, and reserve downvotes for unproductive commentary. People seem to upvote unfairly gray comments regardless of their personal agreement.

bendykstra 11y ago
I don't think it is either, but if we began downvoting for mere disagreement as the person that I responded to advocated, then I think it would.
- DanBC 11y ago
  >if we began downvoting for mere disagreement as the person that I responded to advocated Downvote for disagreement has been on HN for longer than you've had your account. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683
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