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From the Hacker News Guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
by emptysongglass 4y ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
- 4ggr0 4y agoI have a big issue with this rule, especially if it's about my own comment: People downvoted my comment without giving a feedback about what they don't like. How should I better myself in this case? I'm not saying that these votes are unjustified, I would just like to know why I received them. I wasn't trolling or insulting someone, so it's not like my comment is objectively bad. As soon as I added my edit to ask why I was downvoted, people started giving feedback about it, you can check the timestamps yourself. So If I wouldn't have asked for it, I maybe still wouldn't know why people didn't like what I wrote. Now I know that the rule you posted is as it is and can't be argued against, I just wanted to explain why I broke it. I actually never looked at the HN Guidelines, guess I should. And thanks for posting the rule :)
- VGltZUNvbnN1 4y agoA downvote simply tells you that people disagree with your comment and believe it's so bad that they don't want to further interact with you or your comment.
- smcl 4y agoIMO it's ok to edit a comment to ask why you're being downvoted. The comment itself is on-topic, and has sparked an on-topic discussion so I don't see the issue.
- legalcorrection 4y ago