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> Everytime we post an opinion against the consensus Downvoting was, long ago, supposed to be used to indicate trolling, incivility, not substantive, etc. Some
by daxorid 8y ago
> Everytime we post an opinion against the consensus
Downvoting was, long ago, supposed to be used to indicate trolling, incivility, not substantive, etc. Sometime recently, dang and sctb have ruled that downvoting for disagreement is now perfectly acceptable.
In any event, I agree it's become a terrible method of hivemind enforcement. Have an upvote.
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- antpls 8y agoThat is what I thought too. I read HN since so many years. Perfect example of a rating system turning into a bad censorship.
- tomhoward 8y agopg asserted that downvoting is fine to be used for disagreement in Feb 2008, when HN was less than a year old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
- antpls 8y agoI don't care about pg tho
- dang 8y agoThe point is simply that he set the pattern for this site.
- antpls 8y agoThings have to change at some point, that's why Guido is taking a permanent vacation.
- tomhoward 8y agoThe assertion being made, that you seemed to be endorsing, was that downvoting used to be only for incivil or troll comments, but that has changed recently under the newer moderation team. As pg’s 2008 quote shows, that assertion is wrong. Whether it should change now is a separate issue, but there seems to be no mood for that among the more active contributors to HN.
- detaro 8y ago> Sometime recently, dang and sctb have ruled that downvoting for disagreement is now perfectly acceptable. You are wrong about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
- dang 8y agoMore here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314