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I'm not sick of being downvoted (don't care), but I can't say the same about posts that are nothing more than advertisements for the poster's startup.

• xlnt 18y ago
  i'm sick of imprecise posts. the above post is not "nothing more" than an advertisement, even if you're right that that is the primary motivation.
  • gaika 18y ago
    Thank you. You are right, that is not the primary motivation for the post. I liked slashdot back in the day. Had to move on to digg, then reddit, then hacker news, because the quality of discussions was degrading. I think hacker news has a chance to be free from trolls and have high signal / noise because of narrow focus, but these personal anonymous attacks on people with downvoting them for who they are and what they think started to happen here more and more often. I think there's a general solution and would be only happy if sites like Hacker News adopt it as well.
    • astine 18y ago
      I've always felt that the best tool for that job was active moderation. If moderators care about the quality of their 'community' they can maintain it by fairly enforcing a set of rules. I've seen cases where this worked very well.
• greendestiny 18y ago
  I come here to read about startups, especially community member's startups. If this post was actually a link to, or discussion of, a startup that would be great. It's not. If everyone who has something against downvotes would like to respond to this comment I'll upvote you and maybe we can get it out of our system.