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Couldn't agree more. I've been noticing this a lot recently, where I and others get downvoted for earnest, articulate comments that do nothing but express a dis
by eldavido 10y ago
Couldn't agree more. I've been noticing this a lot recently, where I and others get downvoted for earnest, articulate comments that do nothing but express a dissenting opinion.
I think HN needs to explain that downvoting isn't "I disagree with this sentiment", it's "I think this is a bad comment that detracts from the quality of the conversation". I suspect new users might not know this since it's different from many other sites.
- thedufer 10y agoWhy do you think that's what downvotes mean around here? pg explicitly disagrees with you, and his opinion would seem to matter. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
- skewart 10y agoI don't think his opinion matters more than anyone else's opinion. What's more, he's not an especially active member of the community these days.
- mistermann 10y agoLuckily I clicked through and discovered the pg's opinion was not what I thought it was, and I consider myself to be a fairly knowledgeable user of HN. Regardless of what the intention of the up & down vote buttons are, what matters is the reality of what the userbase interprets them to be. I've always been under the impression that a downvote on HN is only for inappropriate discourse (as it is supposed to be on reddit, but then maybe I should go double check that belief as well), rather than disagreement.