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If I post a comment suggesting that xeromal's distaste for downvoting is because they have a tendency to post low-effort comments and generally not contribute t
by pwinnski 4y ago
If I post a comment suggesting that xeromal's distaste for downvoting is because they have a tendency to post low-effort comments and generally not contribute to healthy conversation, would you just let that be, too? Perhaps you would, but many people might expect an accusation they consider untrue to be worth downvoting.
This is an Ask HN. People are generally expected to upvote accurate answers and downvote inaccurate answers.
An answer which includes false accusations of brigading, praises Musk as brilliant, and suggests that all dissension is due to politics is unhelpful, inaccurate, and worth downvoting. As I said before, I'd have downvoted it myself, but it was already sufficiently downvoted.
- xeromal 4y agoI'd agree with you generally, but I think in the spirit of this very specific discussion we're on, downvoting any comments that goes against the status quo seems disingenuous. It's like those unpopular opinion questions on reddit. Someone actually posts one and they are downvoted.
- lostgame 4y agoCan you assert why this conversation is an exception, and what some of the guidelines of the standard for exceptions would be?