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HN and reddit have a similar problem of conflating accuracy with "I (dis)agree with this"
by yakkityyak 5y ago
HN and reddit have a similar problem of conflating accuracy with "I (dis)agree with this"
- shadowgovt 5y agoIn general, that's the risk of crowdsourcing signal on anything... You get the wisdom of the crowds. What that means depends on the crowd.
- kelnos 5y agoAnd even then, HN's guidelines say the downvote button is for comments that don't add to the discussion. Even a comment with incorrect information can add to the discussion (though admittedly much less often than an accurate comment), so it's not really about accuracy, either. (But I will admit that I often downvote things simply because they are inaccurate.)