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> Remind me never to air my concerns in public again. If losing a couple of imaginary internet points is all it takes to retract your comments... how strongly
by vacri 9y ago
> Remind me never to air my concerns in public again.
If losing a couple of imaginary internet points is all it takes to retract your comments... how strongly do you hold those opinions in the first place?
Downvotes just mean disagreement. If more people disagree than agree with you, well, welcome to the ghosted text. But so what? It just means that your opinion is a minority opinion amongst the people who cared enough to click one way or the other.
- dijit 9y agoI use downvotes to signify that content was off-topic or against the site guidelines. I am guilty of upvoting due to agreement or if someone put a lot of effort into a articulate response. But. While I might be a minority with these beliefs, shouldn't people be offering me counter-arguments instead of downvoting? It feels bad to not have a dialog. "You're wrong imo" is not a very useful reply; and that's all you get with downvotes.
- vacri 9y agoFlagging is for when things are against site guidelines. Downvotes just mean disagreement; it's been that way since forever, and pg has stated that downvotes-for-disagreeing is fine on HN. They're just imaginary internet points anyway. The stupid thing is that it just takes one person disagreeing in order to grey out your text - that's an HN fault, not a human fault. > shouldn't people be offering me counter-arguments instead of downvoting? Probably, but there's a lot of things people should be doing which they don't do.