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I'm just tired of people telling me they value it, then seeing that I get down-voted each time. I find them useful, but I only upvote them if I see that they a

I'm just tired of people telling me they value it, then seeing that I get down-voted each time. I find them useful, but I only upvote them if I see that they are below the level of the worthless comments or if I can tell that they have a negative score. If everyone acts like me, you're more likely to lose points on a cross-referencing comment than to gain them. You've done a lot of complaining about the HN community. You seem not to trust them to do what is in the best interest of HN. Why let them determine what you post?

ColinWright 15y ago
You've done a lot of complaining about the HN community. You seem not to trust them to do what is in the best interest of HN. Interesting observation. I hadn't thought about it from that point of view. I think you're right. I think I used to trust the community to do the right thing, and now I don't. That's a useful comment - thank you for making that suddenly so clear.