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That is what I thought too. I read HN since so many years. Perfect example of a rating system turning into a bad censorship.
by antpls 8y ago
That 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.