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Ehh... I don't really understand the impulse to "call out" downvotes, or ask people to explain why they're downvoting something that you wrote or agree with. S
by reitanqild 9y ago
Ehh... I don't really understand the impulse to "call out" downvotes, or ask people to explain why they're downvoting something that you wrote or agree with.
Sometimes there is some really weird voting dynamic here and it would be interesting to know what goes on.
For a lack of a better word you can call it intellectual curiosity or something.
- sanderjd 9y agoI can't remember the last time I saw a reasonable comment more than a half hour or so old greyed out. But I often see highly-voted comment with an old greyed-out reply saying "why is this being downvoted". All that's happening is that the sample size of votes is too small early on to be meaningful.
- reitanqild 9y agoBut I still often wonder about the motivation for those early downvoters. And I'll still hold that this is acceptable curiosity.
- oblib 9y agoI agree with that. I too was curious about why someone downvoted a comment I made the other day. I can honestly say I don't worry about losing a point over that since I've not looked into how points work much but I thought it was odd that someone would do that without explaining what motivated them.
- flukus 9y ago> But I often see highly-voted comment with an old greyed-out reply saying "why is this being downvoted". Many times it's because the user was just asking a question, or made what they thought was a perfectly reasonable comment. HN is pretty horrible with voting etiquette.