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Thank you for your explanation. It was helpful on understanding your motion towards upvoting and downvoting. I upvoted it, and am now explaining you why, becaus
by vmateixeira 10y ago
Thank you for your explanation. It was helpful on understanding your motion towards upvoting and downvoting. I upvoted it, and am now explaining you why, because I think this is how we should justify ourselves.
I kind of agree on you downvoting my comment for being off-topic, but is it really? I think I tried to bring something to this discussion, although not necessarily answering the OP question. Anyway, it's up to the individual but I think we shouldn't be that closed. Otherwise this would be solely a Q/A forum.
Regarding the downvotes, I was already aware of that, and was expecting them. I don't care much about the 'karma' thing and am now actually thrilled to see the outcome of this experiment. I give much more value to an answer like yours, as I can learn with it, than the whole point system really. Thanks!
- dpark 10y ago> I upvoted it, and am now explaining you why Be careful with this. It's generally not a good idea to explain how/why you voted. It's really just for the person whose comment you voted on, and detracts from the conversation for everyone else. Most people will not care why or how any particular person voted. > I kind of agree on you downvoting my comment for being off-topic, but is it really? I wouldn't classify your comment as off-topic, but rather tangential and kind of uninteresting in the context of the initial question. It mostly feels like complaining about the voting system rather than discussion of the system. Complaints about downvotes are also generally discouraged (per HN guidelines), and while your initial comment was not a complaint about a specific comment being downvoted, it is still a complain about downvotes. On the other hand, I did not downvote your second comment, because it's clearly relevant to the comment thread you started.