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imho this isn't specific to HN, Reddit is plagued by "downvote to disagree." Downvoting should be for, as you said, flagging aggressive, off-topic comments. I
by optimusclimb 9y ago
imho this isn't specific to HN, Reddit is plagued by "downvote to disagree."
Downvoting should be for, as you said, flagging aggressive, off-topic comments.
I've really lost interest in commenting on reddit, because if you say anything that disagrees with or goes against a certain sub-reddits current group think on a subject, you're just going to get downvoted into oblivion. It really just intensifies the echo-chamber effect.
- dingo_bat 9y agoDo you think upvoting something you agree with is a valid action? If yes, does it not follow that downvote to disagree is also valid?
- JdeBP 9y agoYou need to observe that the asymmetry is built into Hacker News itself, thereby contradicting the hypothesis that these are supposed to be symmetric actions. There is, now, no longer a downvote button against your comment here, for example; there is still an upvote button, though.