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"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [0] 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.ht
by amdavidson 9y ago
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [0]
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jtbayly 9y agoI think people feel like they need to do something to try to stop a “bad behavior.” My guess is that it’s more effective to simply upvote a comment that is getting downvoted “unjustly” in your opinion. At least that’s what I’ve started doing. Even when it isn’t a comment I would normally upvote.
- hennsen 9y agoIt‘s easier to change bad behavior if someone clearly states what that is. My use of „crappy“ in the very first comment? Did that hurt someones feelings because they love their non-Mac system? That i state i think most other hardware is bad? I dont know, unless I’m told...
- hennsen 9y agoThen there should be a recommendation too that people should write a comment what they don’t like instead of just voting to help people understand what they did wrong. Like this it feels like downvoting is simply abused to push down opinions some don’t like.