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Well, it appears that downvote abuse seems to have somewhat abated after a rash of downvote hordes around the new years (goodness that was annoying)....now they
by elblanco 17y ago
Well, it appears that downvote abuse seems to have somewhat abated after a rash of downvote hordes around the new years (goodness that was annoying)....now they just flag and delete everything in sight when it doesn't fall into their personal concept of "interesting".
- l0stman 17y agoI might be mistaken but I think davidw was referring to earlier attempts to delete the article on Wikipedia, not Hacker News.
- dandelany 17y agoSee, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dwm_%282nd_nomination%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion... From the deletion discussion: "Previous AfD was a trainwreck due to offsite activism." Translation: People from the "rest of the internet" stepped in to clarify how important they thought the article was, so they decided to declare the discussion invalid.