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Yes, by downmodding you help discourage people who post less HN-like stuff. I guess we're relying on PG to bring his methods up to date.
by queensnake 18y ago
Yes, by downmodding you help discourage people who post less HN-like stuff. I guess we're relying on PG to bring his methods up to date.
- 13ren 18y agoI think pg's solution is to ignore what you don't like: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html He's talking about "inappropriate for the site" submissions, not "poor quality" submissions - but I think the same reasoning applies. Perhaps the solution isn't a downmod button, but for the community to change its response? To ignore bad submissions instead of commenting on how bad they are. Commenting just draws attention to the submission and contributes to the problem. I think there's a deeper philosophy here, that it would be worth hearing more about...