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Because an opinion by itself doesn't add much to the discussion, if we don't know why that opinion is held. As far as I understand it and as stated the post te
by elihu 4y ago
Because an opinion by itself doesn't add much to the discussion, if we don't know why that opinion is held.
As far as I understand it and as stated the post text up top, the protesters are protesting because a woman died in the custody of the Iranian morality police. That seems like a pretty good reason to protest. If there's more to the story and the protests are actually about something different, then it would be interesting to know what it is. As it is, the comment comes across as "I don't think the death of that woman is worth protesting about" which isn't a sentiment that I think is likely to get much sympathy here.
- aliqot 4y ago>Because an opinion by itself doesn't add much to the discussion This is a misunderstanding in how downvotes work here.
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- nurettin 4y agoWe don't talk about down votes on hn "because it is boring" to dang. And because there is an incentive to downvote something which is downvoted. Lighter color indicates downvoted content. It shows reputation. As reputation precedes, people will downvote lighter colored text until someone asks why below it. In which case they will reconsider.
- danenania 4y agoThere are also a lot of HNers (myself included) who will upvote any comments they see that they think are unfairly downvoted, whether they agree or disagree with the comment. It creates a pretty good balancing effect. The end result is that comments that stay downvoted after having a decent number of eyeballs on them seem to usually deserve it. A possible exception are hyper-contentious issues (Israel/Palestine for example), where the upvote/downvote count is just a reflection of which tribe has greater numbers on HN.