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AFAIK "legitimately disagreeing with you" is not supposed to be a reason to downvote. In practice this clearly happens often anyway, especially in political top
by themacguffinman 6y ago
AFAIK "legitimately disagreeing with you" is not supposed to be a reason to downvote. In practice this clearly happens often anyway, especially in political topics where it's likely harder to distinguish between wrong/misleading/hostile and regular political disagreement.
- WalterGR 6y agoThis comes up a lot. Paul Graham commented that downvoting for disagreement is fine. People sometimes link to the comment but I don’t have it bookmarked. Hopefully it has some nuance, like downvoting someone because their favorite movie isn’t your favorite movie is rude.
- themacguffinman 6y agoOh TIL. I found Paul Graham's comment saying this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
- WalterGR 6y agoThat’s the one!