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Hi there, when it happened, did that experience of being downvoted change your perspective on the 'health' of HN? can you say more about contrasts between a hum

• ape4 7y ago
  Well, I noticed the downvotes. It didn't ruin my day but I wondered why. I didn't notice my mistake. After a few hours somebody commented correcting me. Oh yeah, oops, that was what I meant. Did that change my perspective? Not sure. Voting is a rather crude way to do things but its easy to implement and sometimes is useful.
  • skissane 7y ago
    Sometimes I wish there was a rule that you had to reply to a comment before you can downvote it. I see people say things, and their comment starts going grey, and from that I can infer that more than one person found what they said disagreeable, but no replies – none of those people have explained why they disagree. The commenter (and observers such as myself) just have to guess why. (Often, when I see a comment going grey for unclear reasons, I'll give it a compensatory upvote. I'm sure I'm not the only person who does this.)