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Personally I rarely downvote posts as I believe everyone has the right to be heard and the implementation of downvoting on HN is tanamount to censhorship. I fee
by dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago
Personally I rarely downvote posts as I believe everyone has the right to be heard and the implementation of downvoting on HN is tanamount to censhorship. I feel upvoting alone does the job well. On these rare occasions where I downvote a post, I feel I really owe it to the person to explain why.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoI don't generally use the downvote button to express disagreement, but I do use it to say "Yeah, this is a violation of the rules and not cool and doesn't belong here." And if it's egregious enough, I will flag it. As someone who is a demographic outlier, I'm okay with getting downvotes as part of the feedback mechanism for trying to figure out how to navigate this social space. I think it's problematic to err too far in the direction of "Everyone needs to be nicey-nice to everyone all the time, no matter what they really think or feel about it."
- pjc50 6y agoFWIW I value your input as an outlier; you nearly always have something interesting and different to say, whereas for many posts half of the arguments are traditional, predictable and stale.