Here's what dang, who's currently in charge of HN, had to say about downvoting a while back: > Downvoting for disagreement is not always bad, but it sometimes

Here's what dang, who's currently in charge of HN, had to say about downvoting a while back: > Downvoting for disagreement is not always bad, but it sometimes is. There should be some nuance here. Don't be indiscriminate. When a comment is blatantly false, downvoting is probably ok, especially when there's something else wrong with the comment. But high-quality, polite posts don't deserve penalizing just because you don't share their position. When you see one of those in negative territory, please be a good citizen and upvote it back to par. Users doing that is one of the community's self-correcting mechanisms, and it's more important now that we've made some downvotes more powerful. (Emphasis mine) For what it's worth, I agree that this should be in the site rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606517