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You're not given the ability to downvote without reaching a certain karma threshold, so there are already some thoughts in place there.

• yawgmoth 10y ago
  It actually seems worse to me that people who have been around to achieve that threshold (it's 500, right?) don't have exhibit the etiquette I'm asking for. They should know better, right?
  • Schwolop 10y ago
    I'm going to respectfully disagree. Part of why I like HN is that meta-discussion of the "why did you downvote me?" and "downvoting because ..." are actively discouraged. Better to silently downvote and move on, which I do frequently for all many of reasons. This has next to no impact unless multiple readers do the same thing, at which point greying out comments serves the intended purpose of conveying that the community as a whole doesn't think the comment is valuable.
    • nickpsecurity 10y ago
      "serves the intended purpose of conveying that the community as a whole doesn't think the comment is valuable." No, it says that more people downvoted it than upvoted it by a certain number of votes. Says nothing about the community as a whole which may have never seen the comment due to the downvotes.