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For the record, I interpreted it as a joke, but also somewhat of a inspirational challenge. But I don't care enough about downvotes to try that hard, so yeah. A
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For the record, I interpreted it as a joke, but also somewhat of a inspirational challenge. But I don't care enough about downvotes to try that hard, so yeah. Also dang says it's never been against the rules to downvote because of disagreement.[0]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772167
- cinntaile 5y agoI know Paul Graham explicitly said it's ok to downvote for disagreeing (I read it a few weeks ago, I cannot provide a source), but it's not like his words are religious scriptures haha. There's no real point in having rules you can't enforce anyway. If you wanted to stop that you would have to get rid of downvotes alltogether. I used to think downvotes were a good thing and I wished some other forums had them, but HNs downvote system changed my mind. I wonder if that would increase the load on the mods because then people would use flagging for that? I don't know. It's not my forum, I don't have access to the statistics and I don't get a say anyway!