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The problem with down-voting is that there is no distinction between a spam report and judgmental calls on the content of a link. It changes the dynamic and th
by fiaz 19y ago
The problem with down-voting is that there is no distinction between a spam report and judgmental calls on the content of a link. It changes the dynamic and the quality of links that make it to the top.
Having recently come from reddit (and I must say I absolutely LOVE the energy of YC News!!!), I noticed that the down-voting makes submission more competitive and it makes the site less varied and more homogeneous.
- icey 19y agoI disagree (to a degree). If enough people want to spend karma on a downvote then maybe the link doesn't really belong in hacker news anways (I'm looking at you, XKCD posts). If a submitter regularly submits garbage, how much different is it than spam? I mean, if a link is of low quality, maybe it ought to be downvoted & buried.
- fiaz 19y agoBut the fact that other quality links can be liberally up-voted by others would prevent low quality links from rising. The only advantage I can see with the down-voting is that it will make (subjectively) quality links rise faster and poor links sink faster - but this is not necessarily an advantage, at least I don't think it is (I could be TOTALLY missing your point here!).