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I don't understand all the down-votes. This seems like a valid and well-meant contribution to the discussion, being voted down because it presents something sli
by spiralganglion 15y ago
I don't understand all the down-votes. This seems like a valid and well-meant contribution to the discussion, being voted down because it presents something slightly contrarian. Why is martingordon's suggestion any more unworthy of HN than the earlier suggestion that the person responsible for this new run be fired? They're both looking at this news inquisitively, trying to understand the forces behind the public actions of HP following their recent mutation.
If you're voting it down, just be sure you're not doing so out of disagreement with the points raised.
- ghshephard 15y agoA downvote on a contributor can be, and frequently is, a vote of disagreement, regardless of how well intentioned and expressed the contributor was.
- georgemcbay 15y agoIf I cared enough about the space to make a karma-based threading system, I would attempt to come up with a way to differentiate disagreement with contribution score (aka karma). Sometimes people feel the need to register disagreement but can't be bothered to write a specific reply as to why, and while it sucks that many people do that via downvoting the contribution score, it is understandable why they do it and there is probably a better fix for it than just telling them they shouldn't do it (they won't listen).
- spiralganglion 15y agoHiding a valuable contribution because you disagree with it probably isn't the intended purpose of the system. Hiding something that lessens the quality of the conversation, independent of the skew it takes, makes more sense. It doesn't matter what the common practice is. What matters is preserving the integrity of the discussion.
- alexqgb 15y agoIf it's heavily down-voted, then it's probably not conspicuously valuable. Indeed, that's exactly the point.