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Your perception is incorrect. You are certainly not alone in wanting downvotes to be different, but the current policy is that downvotes for disagreement are al
by Thiez 5y ago
Your perception is incorrect. You are certainly not alone in wanting downvotes to be different, but the current policy is that downvotes for disagreement are allowed.
- justwanttolearn 5y agoI see, thank you for clarifying. That's kind of unfortunate because I feel that just because everyone feels one way doesn't mean that it is the truth. Sometimes when I don't have an opinion yet on a certain controversial topic and I go to a forum with no upvote/downvote system (very rare it exists), it lets me start with a un-biased ground and read critically into each person's pov.
- dwaltrip 5y agoHave you seen any official comment about how downvotes should be used? The guidelines don't even mention downvoting.
- Thiez 5y agoHere's one from one of the mods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 It's pretty easy to find more of such comments by typing some keywords in Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=hackernews+downvote+disagreement https://www.google.com/search?q=hackernews+downvote+disagree...
- dwaltrip 5y agoThanks! That is helpful, I hadn't seen those.