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> 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 freque
by 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 agoJust want to second this. I regularly have comments downvoted with no substantive pushback in comment form.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThe 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 agoI get it. The instances I’m talking about are, IMO, pretty clearly just irrational disagreement.