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I think you're thinking of somewhere else. The up/down votes are a way of agreeing or disagreeing without cluttering up the comments with a bunch of "me toos"
by dec0dedab0de 10y ago
I think you're thinking of somewhere else. The up/down votes are a way of agreeing or disagreeing without cluttering up the comments with a bunch of "me toos" or "nuhuhhs"
- nocman 10y agoI'm certain that I'm not thinking of somewhere else. I'm completely open to the possibility that I just remember it wrong, but I'm sure that it was HN that I was thinking of, and not another site.
- tw04 10y agoYou're thinking of Reddit.
- cachvico 10y agoReddit, we did it again.
- nocman 10y agoNo, you did not "do it again". I almost never read anything on Reddit. So that was not the source of confusion.
- nocman 10y agoNope, I know I'm not thinking of Reddit (as I said in reply to another comment, I've spent almost no time on Reddit, and would not have seen their guidelines at all).
- tyleraldrich 10y agoDoes this seem familiar? https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
- nocman 10y agoNope. I've never spend much time on reddit, and I'm certain I've never seen that page before. Perhaps I am thinking of comments other people made on HN in the past (who thought that the policy was as I described).
- dang 10y agoThere's never been such a policy on HN; you remembered it wrong, as have many before you. It's the same phenomenon as attributes pithy quotes to Einstein and makes Canadians think we have Miranda rights: people hang memories on the nearest pre-existing hook in the brain. Probably the most that I've written about downvotes on HN is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440694.