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You missed the "I don't really care" option. To me it's just another fad. Like when we get a bunch of Apple Appstore, or Facebook privacy, or Clojure, or Andro
by Sukotto 16y ago
You missed the "I don't really care" option.
To me it's just another fad. Like when we get a bunch of Apple Appstore, or Facebook privacy, or Clojure, or Android, or whatever posts clogging up the main page. After a while people settle down and we get back to having a nicely varied set of articles to read and discuss.
- brown9-2 16y agoI would think not voting would be the same as "I don't really care" in this case.
- kgermino 16y agoBut that's hard to record for the same reason that it's hard to get the community's opinion based on upvotes. If 1000 people read this page, 200 vote in favor 90 vote opposed you would say that the majority of people are in favor of Offer HN posts. However, if the other 710 would have voted "I don't care" then your results would be completely off.
- Sukotto 16y agoYou have to know how many people read the thread, Otherwise there's no functional difference between "I chose not to vote" and "I didn't notice the thread".
- jsmcgd 16y agoI reckon that most people notice most threads but only read the ones they're interested in. So in this instance it is probable that those who don't care to read the thread also don't care to vote either way and therefore implicitly tick the '"I don't really care" option'.
- krschultz 16y agoSorry, I forgot about that one. Unfortunately I was working for the last few hours so I hadn't checked back and we've probably missed most of the people that would have voted.