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Could you please stop breaking guidelines by commenting on downvotes? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelin
by oefrha 7y ago
Could you please stop breaking guidelines by commenting on downvotes? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Three things:
1. What you find interesting might not interest others; if you want to force a discussion on someone, call a hotline;
2. The comment wouldn’t have been heavily downvoted if it weren’t written in this “I’m woke and you sheeple aren’t” tone. (I didn’t even downvote that one for the record.)
3. Vote swings are a thing.
Also, just for your info, “so many downvotes...” a comment can be downvoted five times before it’s dead, so any non-dead comment hasn’t attracted a lot of downvotes. “They’ll get throttled” that’s nonsense, throttling is based on thread depth and comment frequency, not votes.
- mellow2020 7y ago> Could you please stop breaking guidelines by commenting on downvotes? "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names." Downvoting without argument is the equivalent of calling names, so the answer is no. > if you want to force a discussion on someone, call a hotline; Who wants to "force a discussion"? Why do people who don't want to discuss something get to punish those who do? And how is what I quoted not blatant violation of the guidelines? > The comment wouldn’t have been heavily downvoted if it weren’t written in this “I’m woke and you sheeple aren’t” tone. The tone is in your reading. Also, you don't know why people downvote, you're simply claiming it. So after you say I shouldn't "break the guidelines by talking about downvotes", you then proceed to talk about downvotes, while claiming things you have no basis for, something I didn't do nor would do, because I don't need to.