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Downvoting has 13 years of work and stress testing by 10,000s of people, you don't just turn it off. Software 101, something 10 years old has some sort of prop
by aaron695 6y ago
Downvoting has 13 years of work and stress testing by 10,000s of people, you don't just turn it off.
Software 101, something 10 years old has some sort of proportional to 10 years worth of work in it.
It's also not cancel culture here yet, flagged and dead are viewable.
Part of the reason HN has defences against cancel culture is they don't make changes.
- lazyjones 6y ago> Downvoting has 13 years of work and stress testing by 10,000s of people, you don't just turn it off. This may be an argument for its correct functioning in the technical sense but is blatantly ignorant on changes in society and communication. If a mechanism becomes misused and exploited after a community grows and welcomes people from other communities, it has to be reconsidered. Social interaction definitely doesn't scale smoothly.