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Once you have more than 500, you unlock downvotes! Worth it for that alone.
by warning26 3y ago
Once you have more than 500, you unlock downvotes! Worth it for that alone.
- revskill 3y agoDoes HN have any guidance on when and why to downvote ? Or just personally ?
- tmpob 3y agoIn my experience it's when you post something that someone has a strong opposing opinion about. Same for flagging, seems to be treated as a super-downvote most of the time.
- cratermoon 3y agoIn the guidelines, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html see the section "In Comments". Comments violating those guidelines are reasonable candidates for downvoting.
- revskill 3y ago[flagged]
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoPaul Graham has posted his thoughts about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 I think that sites really shouldn't have guidance on this sort of thing, because nobody would follow it anyway. If you only have upvotes and downvotes, people are just going to upvote stuff they like and downvote stuff they don't like, and any individual will have different rules about what "like" or "doesn't like" means to them. Waaaaay back in the day, I did like how Slashdot had different categories for voting, e.g. "Insightful", "Funny", "Off topic", etc.
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago> Waaaaay back in the day, I did like how Slashdot had different categories for voting, e.g. "Insightful", "Funny", "Off topic", etc. Even that got abused, as comments people didn't like would be modded off-topic or troll.
- tezgon 3y agoIt may just be a natural internet behavior to suppress that which you disagree with.
- lostlogin 3y agoIf you remove the word ‘internet’ you’re right in track.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoI'd like to see a site that punishes people for downvoting for the wrong reason.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoHonestly we don't need downvoting at all. Just upvoting to allow good stuff to rise, and flagging for hate speech and illegal stuff.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoCan't disagree with this enough. Twitter exists, and it sucks. Every site that only allows upvoting becomes a segregated cesspool as different factions just cheerlead in their own tribal zones.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoTwitter sucks for other reasons, not because they disallow downvoting.
- civilitty 3y agoYou are stealing: downvote. You are playing music too loud: downvote, right away. Driving too fast: downvote. Slow: downvote. You are charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses: you get downvoted. You undercook fish? Believe it or not, Downvote. You overcook chicken, also downvote. Undercook, overcook. You make an appointment with the dentist and you don't show up, believe it or not, downvote, right away. We have the best patients in the world because of downvoting.
- revskill 3y agoIf he steals things from a thief, will you downvote ? If the urgency bus drive too fast, will you downvote ? If he playing music too loud under the rain, will you downvote ? ...
- civilitty 3y agoWhoosh: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw :) It’s a humorous commentary on how fickle HN karma can be
- swayvil 3y agoIn theory : Does the comment contribute to the conversation? In practice : Pure jellyfish-brain embrace/reject reaction. A gaggle of flatworms with keyboards