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what bothers me the most is: people downvoting an opinion that differs from their own. In a contrived example, if someone says jobs was nothing without wozniak
by autokad 9y ago
what bothers me the most is: people downvoting an opinion that differs from their own. In a contrived example, if someone says jobs was nothing without wozniak, I dont think a person should be downvoted for voicing their opinion.
- sireat 9y agoHN in general will tolerate dissent, if you can provide good argumentation. Sure there's groupthink in HN as in any other forum, but HN is more open to different ideas than any other forum that I have known since the days of Usenet in late 1980s.
- wott 9y agoYes, I came to realise that when it comes (among other subjects) to 'tech' criticism, it easier to have an open discussion with various points of view on HN than on my generic national subreddit. That takes the biscuit! I just wish someone could come up with a new Usenet (<rant>instead of a dozen of open-source copies of damn Twitter</rant>). Something that doesn't depend on a company or a couple of individuals. In similar vein to what happens for the Twitter copies I ranted about, but for long, threaded discussions in Reddit/HN/Usenet style. Oh, and Reddit lacks proper hierarchies, so the discovery of subreddits is pretty bad. So, yes, more like Usenet.
- am1988 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
- DanBC 9y agoAnd this too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683 But then see these, which seem to acknowledge downvote to disagree is a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716