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Ipod over walkman?
by darkerside 5y ago
Ipod over walkman?
- darkerside 5y agoCan someone seriously explain why this is getting downvotes?
- loudmax 5y agoOn HN it's generally considered bad form to dispute downvotes. IMHO there's nothing wrong with your original comment, except perhaps brevity. Maybe somebody was of the opinion that you needed to make the argument that a Walkman is simpler than an iPod.
- justinpowers 5y agoI’m not deep enough into the culture to know whether disputing, or simply asking for explanation, of a downvote is “bad form”, but i would bet that using downvotes as an alternative to a cogent rebuttal is considered “worse form”. And there’s no way to counter it except to do as gp did and call it out, asking for explanation. Unfortunately the downvoter is unlikely to ever offer an explanation. So the gp and others like him (myself at times) relies on the crowd to figure out whether or not there’s a misunderstanding. Discouraging that, when the downvote is seemingly arbitrary, doesn’t help the situation at all. How else can a downvoted commenter, and bystanders, learn?
- darkerside 5y agoThanks for understanding. Not disputing it, just bothering to understand if I can.
- Someone1234 5y agoDisclaimer: didn’t downvote. Because it contrasts something from 1979 with something from 2001 and fails to explain how this is a relevant example for the discussion.
- darkerside 5y ago> technologically superior and higher quality option winning over a cheap and simple one It was a direct answer to that question, and IMO a good one. Some in this thread appear to feel that we inexorably move towards a disposable culture, and this is a clear counterexample. How is directly answering a question with a counterexample not contributing to the discussion? I shouldn't be so annoyed at this, but I admit that I am.