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Ok. 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 i
by Fricken 8y ago
Ok. 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.