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Maybe they thought you sounded skeptically dismissive or something. I could see that reading.
by guerrilla 6y ago
Maybe they thought you sounded skeptically dismissive or something. I could see that reading.
- poulsbohemian 6y agoY'know... I've been on this site for nearly a decade now, and the discourse here just gets weirder and weirder. I give Dang credit - the guy clearly has good intensions and is working hard to make this a civil forum, but... sometimes I wonder if I've just gotten old and just need to go crawl under a rock somewhere, because the ability for people to have constructive and meaningful dialog here is seriously lacking.
- quieterthanu 6y agodon't be discouraged. they are not the majority only the loud
- jdoss 6y agoDon't let the downvotes get you down. I was thinking the same question and I'm glad you asked it.
- cjbenedikt 6y agoI Agee completely
- vmception 6y agosadly, dang wants people to ignore discussions about consensus. which means questioning why any user silently disagreed is off limits and can result in more downvotes! its "unsubstantive", why wonder how to relate to the audience here, just post substantive comments no matter what! Oh ignore that rate limit that gets enabled due to community downvotes haha don't question that either. maybe there should be a meta HN, like how stackoverflow has a meta version of the site
- parsecs 6y agoI don't think "getting a couple downvotes from random strangers on the internet" means "the ability for people to have constructive and meaningful dialog here is seriously lacking"
- bpodgursky 6y agoThe downvotes here are super reflexive and common though. Reddit (at least the parts I'm on) is nowhere near as instinctively negative.
- NetOpWibby 6y agoThis is the reason I joined Lobsters but then I found elitism. No community is perfect. Le sigh.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>Reddit (at least the parts I'm on) is nowhere near as instinctively negative. True. But once the votes start going one way or the other and the sheep can see how they're supposed to feel about a comment the votes really go wild in that direction. Controversial things here tend to bounce around a low net number of up/down votes a lot more.
- guerrilla 6y agoI thought they added a feature to stop this from happening. It doesn't show which way the vote is going for some period of a time or something like that.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoI think the mods have to enable it for their sub.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoDepends on the context. It's one thing to get down-voted for pointing out some ideologically inconvenient thing or asking a question that's tough to answer in a logically consistent manner. But this was a question about rocks. It's hard to find less inflammatory subject matter than that. All people had to do was take it at face value and not click a button. But they didn't they assumed bad intent. Behavior like that reflects upon the community in the same way that Reddit thinking you can't buy or sell goods via classified ads without a high likelihood getting scammed (to pick one example) is a reflection on that community.
- Karawebnetwork 6y agoVotes go down and up and that's normal. You comment seemed skeptically dismissive, so it was downvoted. Once someone responded and you interacted in a way that showed your true interest, subsequent readers no longer perceived it as skeptical. As a result, your votes increased.
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