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I've in the past been downvoted for suggesting that counting the number of attractive women you see walking down the street would give you the best single metri
by Fricken 8y ago
I've in the past been downvoted for suggesting that counting the number of attractive women you see walking down the street would give you the best single metric for measuring the vibrancy of a neighbourhood. Now that I've got some data to back up the claim, I would probably still get downvoted for suggesting as much.
- Buge 8y agoThe article doesn't really say anything about attractiveness. Maybe you should adjust your metric to single-looking working age women.
- DATACOMMANDER 8y agoWhat—other than not wearing a wedding ring—makes a woman “single-looking”?
- Buge 8y agoNot walking next to a man about her age or kids.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't break the site guidelines, which ask you not to go on about downvoting. Especially please don't do downvote-baiting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Fricken 8y agoOk. FYI the site guidelines say nothing about downvotes. I had never heard the term 'downvote-baiting' before, and when I looked it up, the top result was you in some other thread on HN.
- Buge 8y agoThe guidelines might might specifically forbid talking about downvotes, but they do forbid talking about votes in general. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments.
- dang 8y agoAs Buge pointed out, we generalized it. Older versions of the guidelines contained those rules more specifically—see the bottom of https://web.archive.org/web/20120321171757/http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120321171757/http://ycombinato.... Since there were other ways users were taking threads off topic by complaining about voting, we decided to just make it shorter and ask not to do any of that.