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Maybe on Reddit, but on HN downvoting is supposed to be a moderation tool. That’s why you need a certain amount of karma to access it. It should be used to flag
by vengefulduck 6y ago
Maybe on Reddit, but on HN downvoting is supposed to be a moderation tool. That’s why you need a certain amount of karma to access it. It should be used to flag content that breaks the rules or is unproductive in some way. Please don’t use it like you do on Reddit.
- krastanov 6y agoYou are making a couple too many assumptions. For starters, I do not use reddit. I wrote my message above with the caveat that I am unsure ("I thought"), but you are presenting a front of certainty without backing it up with evidence (and evidence rarely exists when talking about common culture).
- dang 6y agoDownvoting for disagreement is ok on HN, and always has been - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314. What you're describing is more what flagging is for. When substantive comments get unfairly downvoted, it's good to give them a corrective upvote. People mostly tend to do that and that mostly fixes the problem. Not entirely—but close enough that there's no globally better solution that we're aware of. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=corrective%20upvote https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...