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There was an article about bad service at apple stores. I commented that I had mostly positive experiences. Was downvoted.
by confidantlake 6y ago
There was an article about bad service at apple stores. I commented that I had mostly positive experiences. Was downvoted.
- cgriswald 6y agoThere’s a similar dynamic on Nextdoor in my neighborhood. You’re basically not allowed to disagree with the OP. Commenters will say things like “this isn’t the place for it” without addressing the content or actual appropriateness. Usually you’ll be drown out by a bunch of “compassionate” posts or stupid questions[0] as well. If you want to disagree with someone you can start your own post and many of the same people will “protect” your post from disagreement as well. It’s basically impossible to have an actual discussion in that environment. [0] - Stupid as in the answer to their question is literally in the text of the post they’re responding to in the first place.
- everybodyknows 6y agoThis is clearly a minority opinion, but in my view well-stated factual anecdotes that the majority find uncomfortable deserve upvote, always. But that's not what they get, not even here on HN. The high karma threshold is helpful, but I doubt raising it further would do much. Some qualitatively different vetting mechanism is wanted. Thought about the problem a lot, but so far reached only a few inchoate notions.