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Because HN was wrong about their guidelines preventing the inevitable decline of the community and as more people have gained the ability to downvote they just
by jsmith0295 10y ago
Because HN was wrong about their guidelines preventing the inevitable decline of the community and as more people have gained the ability to downvote they just do it over anything they disagree with. I haven't even been here that long and I've noticed a pretty big increase in the frequency of this type of thing happening in less than a year.
- sprafa 10y agoOuch. I don't think that's quite true. His point was ok, but he took the validity of the initial claim in the article for granted ("young men are playing videogames instead of working hard") and most people here actually don't think that's true. It's a factual disagreement not an reflex like you paint it. The original article is nothing but socially-punitive speculation anyway.