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"I hate to lose reputation with downvotes for sounding negative, but I find my credulity challenged with this story." My opinion about downvotes is that they r
by FpUser 7y ago
"I hate to lose reputation with downvotes for sounding negative, but I find my credulity challenged with this story."
My opinion about downvotes is that they reflect way more on reputation of those who actually does the thing (unfortunately they stay anonymous). Well HN rates you using down/up votes but personally since I do not agree with this whole anonymous anti-feature I do not really care.
Alternatively (lets add some conspiracy to spice it up) they might be doing hidden user profiling on whole range of social patterns and sending data to interested parties.
- Causality1 7y agoI've found HN to be incredibly unpredictable when it comes to public opinion. I've had comments start out with a dozen up votes only to sink into the negatives hours later, and comments that spent a day at negative four suddenly rise into the positives.
- FpUser 7y agoPositive sinking into negatives... Yes that is what I often observe. As for predictability - it seems to me like anything that deviates from the "party line" (whatever that is for any particular area) gets downvoted. Looks like a usual herd mentality to me.