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Most of the good discussion here happens without much mutual upvoting or downvoting. Frequent downvoters fit other users into political/technical/social narrati
by 1123581321 6y ago
Most of the good discussion here happens without much mutual upvoting or downvoting. Frequent downvoters fit other users into political/technical/social narratives that wouldn’t make sense to anyone else, and the downvoted would reflect that.
- vosper 6y agoYou're probably right, but I'll give you a concrete example: here's a post from today that was downvoted when I commented on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25280929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25280929 It appeared to be making a factual claim about how MDM works, (and here's where I get subjective) counter to a prevailing narrative in the thread. It's not downvoted anymore, but there was no explanation available (and there still isn't). Was the comment wrong? Did people just not like it? Did they think it was off-topic to what it was replying to, or missing the point? We'll never know. I'd like to know :) Also, I think a system like I'm proposing would make it easier to find the quality comments and threads, and avoid (if you want to) the controversial stuff, the hot-takes, the me-too comments, the pandering to the HN crowd / tropes - etc...
- 1123581321 6y agoTo me that seems like one that will attract angry downvotes because it goes against a Google Bad narrative (not that they necessarily aren’t, or are.) I don’t think those kinds of readers are reflective enough to give good feedback. It’s difficult to discuss the particulars of many FAANG-related subjects here right now.