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This is a new thing, 2-3 years ago downvotes were still rare, these days people treat it like reddit where it means disagree rather than inappropriate. The cult
by mattmanser 11y ago
This is a new thing, 2-3 years ago downvotes were still rare, these days people treat it like reddit where it means disagree rather than inappropriate. The culture's changed.
- mikeash 11y agoDownvoting to express disagreement is sort of officially correct, though: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 Not that I agree with that at all.
- eric_h 11y agoThe karma threshold for downvotes likely means that there are far more people with the ability than there were 3 years ago. Honestly, I only collected enough karma recently to down vote (and it's a privilege I use quite sparingly).