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Common retort: don’t just downvote me, tell me why I’m wrong. I’m a professional who had signed off on legal documents. Why would the buck not stop at me? That’
by inlined 7y ago
Common retort: don’t just downvote me, tell me why I’m wrong. I’m a professional who had signed off on legal documents. Why would the buck not stop at me? That’s the way it works in architecture and other professions.
- jodrellblank 7y agoCommon retort: don’t just downvote me, tell me why I’m wrong. "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- hobofan 7y agoI _think_ this rule is intended to discourage "Have an upvote" (and similar) comments, commonly seen on Reddit. Reminding fellow readers/commenters to not just shallowly dismiss comments once in a while doesn't do much harm, and actually lead me to reply to the parent.