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Off topic, but voting on comments should not primarily be used to signal disagreement. "Good" comments (for some definition of "good") can be upvoted even if th
by jmiserez 7y ago
Off topic, but voting on comments should not primarily be used to signal disagreement. "Good" comments (for some definition of "good") can be upvoted even if they argue a viewpoint you disagree with.
Otherwise all that remains is an echo chamber.
- dang 7y agoOn HN, downvoting for disagreement has always been fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20256420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20256420 and marked it off-topic.