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I've always thought downvote on HN was for comments that are inappropriate, incompetent/harmful, or not following rules. In other words a vote that a comment ho

by 83457 6y ago

I've always thought downvote on HN was for comments that are inappropriate, incompetent/harmful, or not following rules. In other words a vote that a comment holds no value on here. Anything else is just a discussion.

jdxcode 6y ago
I’m surprised downvoting isn’t even mentioned in the guidelines. Assuming they didn’t want to mention downvoting unless you have enough karma, they could just display the clause for those with downvoting capability.
- edoceo 6y ago
  It is! ""Commenting on voting is boring"" or something. Like this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Near the bottom