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Hn is a pretty poor place for unusual opinions, with downvoting comments actually making them physically harder to read and all. It's pretty obnoxious when you
by thatguy0900 6y ago
Hn is a pretty poor place for unusual opinions, with downvoting comments actually making them physically harder to read and all. It's pretty obnoxious when you have to start manually highlighting text to follow a discussion
- draw_down 6y agoNo kidding!
- dang 6y agoYou can click on the timestamp to go to the comment's page, where the text will be readable. It's an annoying extra step, but not as annoying as downgrading the immune system would be, assuming you find fatal illness annoying. Most (<-- notice I said "most") downvoted comments have been downvoted for good reason. Letting the median downvoted comment have the run of this place would kill it.
- thatguy0900 6y agoI don't disagree, and I'm here because I enjoy the culture and comments. But if you are specifically looking for unusual opinions I don't think this is the place with that system in place.
- dang 6y ago"Unusual opinions" can mean a lot of things. It's not hard to express unusual opinions without breaking the site guidelines, but often people can't resist ranting, lashing out at the mainstream and so on, at the same time. That approach is guaranteed to get downvoted, and typically the commenter does not think "perhaps I could have expressed myself more thoughtfully". Instead they think, "I am being downvoted for my unpopular opinions". It always feels like the fault lies with others. (Edit: of course that applies to what I'm saying here, too...fair's fair.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html