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Why the downvotes? Seems like a well-reasoned hypothesis and contributes to the overall discussion. Has HN become that critical of different opinions that down
by beambot 10y ago
Why the downvotes?
Seems like a well-reasoned hypothesis and contributes to the overall discussion. Has HN become that critical of different opinions that downvotes are used to punish dissent rather than using upvotes to indicate agreement?
- Kinnard 10y agoSometimes downvotes mean people just disagree not that the comment was malformed.
- gist 10y agoI actually UPVOTED when I saw "implies a pretty big perceived power imbalance". It's possible that the downvotes took that as a negative where I was in agreement. Downvotes (for whatever reason) mean that more people vote down than vote up (duh). As a result they can change simply because of the people that are reading a particular comment stream. Same comment on a different post could have entirely different results vote wise (at least when it's an intelligent comment as yours was).
- elmar 10y agoWho cares about downvotes! just enter the "Aspergian mindset" and write what you think is right. If you are looking for social feedback you will never get far on startups.
- Kinnard 10y agoWell, users are social feedback . . .