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Can someone explain why you're down voting this person? His/her comments seem very reasonable, am I missing something? I hate that HN lets you downvote without

Can someone explain why you're down voting this person? His/her comments seem very reasonable, am I missing something? I hate that HN lets you downvote without an explanation. edit: And now I'm being down voted for asking a question!? Wtf is going on.. I'm trying to get information here..

frandroid 9y ago
My guess is, the downvotes are for "This is a non-story", while it jumps to the top of HN.
nix0n 9y ago
From the official HN guidelines[0]: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- notheguyouthink 9y ago
  Hmm, shame - I was hoping to promote actual discussion about the real reason at hand, but I guess that's not allowed. I do find it very strange that we're not supposed to foster discussion, but rather quietly accept silencing of dissenting views. Seems very against the meaningful discussions that I come up HN for. Strange for me. Thank you, despite it breaking the rules I guess. I'm let down by HN this day. :/
  - philbarr 9y ago
    First rule of HN: do not talk about downvoting. Second rule of HN: you get the idea....
    - notheguyouthink 9y ago
      Well more explicitly, I don't give a shit about downvoting - but why someone downvotes is very important. Eg, if someone writes a long well thought out post, full of information, and is down voted heavily - should we not question it? It seems the HN mantra is "well the masses have spoken, best not to question them". I don't give a damn about someones magic internet points, but what I'm being told is I cannot try and prompt actual discussion? I just have to remain dumb about something I'm missing, because that's what a HNer is supposed to do? This seems so wrong :/ Honestly, this seems like an above (not by you exactly) of the root idea. By all means, don't talk about down votes, but I wasn't - I was talking about the content, that others apparently did not find worthy. Why was it not worthy? Why is it a good rule to not understand why things aren't worthy? Again, I'm not talking about magic internet numbers, I'm talking about content - yet we're not allowed to do that either. Wtf?
      - philbarr 9y ago
        I totally agree with you. But every time I raise this as an idea I get downvoted :) I can only assume everyone else is perfectly fine with it - except yours is not the first post I've seen like this.
philbarr 9y ago
You're allowed to downvote on HN even if it's just because you disagree. It's something Paul Graham said years ago. And it's a stupid policy and should be changed.

frandroid 9y ago

My guess is, the downvotes are for "This is a non-story", while it jumps to the top of HN.

nix0n 9y ago

From the official HN guidelines[0]: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

notheguyouthink 9y ago
Hmm, shame - I was hoping to promote actual discussion about the real reason at hand, but I guess that's not allowed. I do find it very strange that we're not supposed to foster discussion, but rather quietly accept silencing of dissenting views. Seems very against the meaningful discussions that I come up HN for. Strange for me. Thank you, despite it breaking the rules I guess. I'm let down by HN this day. :/
- philbarr 9y ago
  First rule of HN: do not talk about downvoting. Second rule of HN: you get the idea....
  - notheguyouthink 9y ago
    Well more explicitly, I don't give a shit about downvoting - but why someone downvotes is very important. Eg, if someone writes a long well thought out post, full of information, and is down voted heavily - should we not question it? It seems the HN mantra is "well the masses have spoken, best not to question them". I don't give a damn about someones magic internet points, but what I'm being told is I cannot try and prompt actual discussion? I just have to remain dumb about something I'm missing, because that's what a HNer is supposed to do? This seems so wrong :/ Honestly, this seems like an above (not by you exactly) of the root idea. By all means, don't talk about down votes, but I wasn't - I was talking about the content, that others apparently did not find worthy. Why was it not worthy? Why is it a good rule to not understand why things aren't worthy? Again, I'm not talking about magic internet numbers, I'm talking about content - yet we're not allowed to do that either. Wtf?
    - philbarr 9y ago
      I totally agree with you. But every time I raise this as an idea I get downvoted :) I can only assume everyone else is perfectly fine with it - except yours is not the first post I've seen like this.

philbarr 9y ago

You're allowed to downvote on HN even if it's just because you disagree. It's something Paul Graham said years ago. And it's a stupid policy and should be changed.