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While "turning into Reddit" is a tired cliché here, I have seen a slowly-increasing trend of unjustified and irrational downvoting here. It's nowhere near redd

While "turning into Reddit" is a tired cliché here, I have seen a slowly-increasing trend of unjustified and irrational downvoting here. It's nowhere near reddit-bad, but it is significantly worse than when I joined eight years ago. I have seen an increase in longer-term users commenting on undeserved downvotes of other people's posts, which tells me I'm not the only one seeing this. Unfortunately, I think the cat has left the bag. Removing the censorship feature from downvotes would counteract most of the damage it does to discourse, I think.

dang 7y ago
This perception has been around since the early years too. I've even pulled out the Voltaire joke about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670004. In fact, the guideline against downvote complaints predates the guideline against "turning into Reddit" complaints by a couple of years: https://web.archive.org/web/20080706144102/http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080706144102/http://ycombinato...