pg has in the past explicitly endorsed the idea that votes should, to some extent, reflect agreement/disagreement, but he's making a mistake. He has also corre

pg has in the past explicitly endorsed the idea that votes should, to some extent, reflect agreement/disagreement, but he's making a mistake. He has also correctly said the votes should answer the question "do we want more of this on HN?" since that's functionally what they are used for. If anything, we should err on the side of upvoting thoughtful things we disagree with, rather than agree with, since we learn more from that.