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I 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
by icey 19y ago
I 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!).