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Downvoting for disagreement is toxic to discourse and how echo chambers like Reddit are born. It may be tolerated but it shouldn't be encouraged IMO.
by simias 6y ago
Downvoting for disagreement is toxic to discourse and how echo chambers like Reddit are born. It may be tolerated but it shouldn't be encouraged IMO.
- Quarrelsome 6y agoits actually part of redditquette to _not_ downvote when disagreeing. Granted, lots of people ignore redditquette but the convention is there.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoI agree, but fwiw pg (the HN founder) encouraged downvoting for disagreement. I railed against it to, but as pg endorses it I think we're stuck with it. The best sort of voting I've seen is multi-dimensional Slashdot-style voting where users can individually model there own comment visibility metrics.