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>> Generally, upvote the positive rather than downvote the negative. The exception, at least for me, is top level comments. They have so much power to shape th
by bradleyjg 10y ago
>> Generally, upvote the positive rather than downvote the negative.
The exception, at least for me, is top level comments. They have so much power to shape the conversation that even a merely mediocre one should be downvoted.
- Bartweiss 10y agoThere's at least one thread today (the toxic oil one) where the highest top-level comment was factually wrong, and clearly responding to the title without actually opening the article. Sure, it's possible to comment with a correction (people did), but it's an absolute waste of a comment thread to have the first experience be a bunch of people debunking gibberish. Downvoting plays an important role in sanitizing stuff that's going to waste time and prevent good discussion.
- danjoc 10y agoHN needs comment folding. I can ignore those discussions easily on reddit by simply folding the comment. I find down voting here to be quite arbitrary and at times really mean spirited. It's discouraging to know that people are doing it merely to order the posts.
- jacquesm 10y agoIt's in beta right now. Just a little while.
- SCdF 10y agoI use the Hacker News Enhancement Suite Chrome extension for exactly that. (It also monkey with fonts and adds tagging a bunch more things, but I honestly only care about the comment folding).
- kemayo 10y agoIt's trivial to add via userscripts, at least: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/2960-hacker-news-collapsible-comments https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/2960-hacker-news-collapsib...