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I'm curious to see how this will turn out particularly on controversial news articles. Most news site comment sections have a majority liberal/conservative audi

I'm curious to see how this will turn out particularly on controversial news articles. Most news site comment sections have a majority liberal/conservative audience, which curses minority viewpoints to be heavily downvoted. But she if this is true on Facebook.

ravenstine 8y ago
It has more to do with judging posts as incivil or irrelevant, kind of like HN's downvote system, as opposed to an "unlike" feature, so I don't think they would apply this feature to posts for news articles. But who knows! I think the results would be hilariously disastrous if thousands of people get to downvote news stories on a regular basis.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  > It has more to do with judging posts as incivil or irrelevant, kind of like HN's downvote system I have definitely witnessed HN's downvote system used frequently for other reasons, so if we're comparing against HN, I don't see how they can keep it to those reasons either...
  - toasterlovin 8y ago
    Just want to second this. I regularly have comments downvoted with no substantive pushback in comment form.
    - dragonwriter 8y ago
      The whole point of downvotes is to improve S/N ratio by reducing the visibility of noise by both deemphasizing the comments that are noise and channeling pushback to such comments into the voting system rather than additional comments. So, no, not getting pushback in comments is not supporting evidence for improper use of downvotes, it is the intent of downvotes.
      - toasterlovin 8y ago
        I get it. The instances I’m talking about are, IMO, pretty clearly just irrational disagreement.
dredmorbius 8y ago
There are definitely topics HN cannot discuss. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/E5uNNxmnjir https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/E5uNNxmn... And not becausse it was submitted and discussed elsewwhere. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook%20sandy%20hook&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook%20sandy%20hook&sort=b...

ravenstine 8y ago

It has more to do with judging posts as incivil or irrelevant, kind of like HN's downvote system, as opposed to an "unlike" feature, so I don't think they would apply this feature to posts for news articles. But who knows! I think the results would be hilariously disastrous if thousands of people get to downvote news stories on a regular basis.

mehrdadn 8y ago
> It has more to do with judging posts as incivil or irrelevant, kind of like HN's downvote system I have definitely witnessed HN's downvote system used frequently for other reasons, so if we're comparing against HN, I don't see how they can keep it to those reasons either...
- toasterlovin 8y ago
  Just want to second this. I regularly have comments downvoted with no substantive pushback in comment form.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    The whole point of downvotes is to improve S/N ratio by reducing the visibility of noise by both deemphasizing the comments that are noise and channeling pushback to such comments into the voting system rather than additional comments. So, no, not getting pushback in comments is not supporting evidence for improper use of downvotes, it is the intent of downvotes.
    - toasterlovin 8y ago
      I get it. The instances I’m talking about are, IMO, pretty clearly just irrational disagreement.

dredmorbius 8y ago

There are definitely topics HN cannot discuss. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/E5uNNxmnjir https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/E5uNNxmn... And not becausse it was submitted and discussed elsewwhere. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook%20sandy%20hook&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook%20sandy%20hook&sort=b...