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Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so aggressive?
Why is the hackernews community not nice?
1. No equality. Some chosen people can downvote.
2. People leave passive aggressive comments.
3. People downvote my honest opinion when I share it.
- misterhtmlcss 6y agoThis is a bizarre comment to make from my point of view. I truly love this community and I've been called out, voted down, voted up, etc. It's always with authenticity and with articulate responses. Honestly this kind of comment feels like clickbait, which is truly frowned up within this community and will definitely mark you.
- firebaze 6y agoBecause it is opposed to flame wars :)
- mikece 6y agoWell that's odd... I up-voted the question and my karma just went down by 15 points. :)
- h2odragon 6y agoI must disagree; I think the general tone here is still remarkably positive, thanks partially to well articulated site guidelines, and much-ly to the wonderful moderators who take the time, again and again, to persuade and explain their mission.
- okareaman 6y agoI took a look at your comment history. Most of you comments are not downvoted. The one's that are don't add anything to the conversation. HN hates that because it's noise. Commenting "I love it!" would get downvoted. Don't take it personally.
- king_panic 6y agoYou're last comment was `I'd go and get it ASAP, so I resume my life. Anti-vaxxers can isolate themselves forever :)` You got an honest response to an honest comment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- URfejk 6y agoWho cares. Why would it have to be nice anyways? Move on. If you can't, leave.
- jjgreen 6y agoAnyone with karma above 500 can downvote
- gus_massa 6y agoLooking at your comments, try to avoid onliners. It is very difficult to write onliners here.Try to expend your comment to a few sentences, and perhaps add a citation if relevant.