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Labels? How incredibly crude! Around here we've got much more sophisticated method of suppressing unpopular ideas. Like karma.
by meatpie 18y ago
Labels? How incredibly crude! Around here we've got much more sophisticated method of suppressing unpopular ideas. Like karma.
- kirse 18y agoHow true... I've actually typed out a few comments before and decided not to post them because I figured they would just result in a bunch of down-voting without any response. These weren't trolling comments either, but legitimate arguments that popular opinion would probably disagree with. If pg is really concerned about suppressed ideas, he should require that people give a response when they downvote and have a separate flag for "trolling" or "spam"-like comments.
- cconstantine 18y agoMy understanding is that downvoting is only for trolling or spam-like comments. Disagreement is good, disagreement can be healthy. A well-spoken (or even not-poorly-spoken) argument that is contrary to popular opinion should be upvoted. If we don't allow, or punish, unpopular ideas we'll become a homogeneous mass with no new ideas.