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Paul 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
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
Paul 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.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoPlease, pray tell, how would you even determine if something was "for the wrong reason".
- nerdbert 3y agoSlashdot had metamoderation, where you were asked whether various anonymized votes/tags were valid or not.
- revskill 3y agoThe same applied for "upvote"
- ilyt 3y agoI wonder how it would work if we had different kinds of upvote/downvote. Then again if given a choice between "I disagree" and "you're a moron for saying that", people would just pick second if it is a disagreement about something they feel strongly about
- JohnFen 3y agoPersonally, I would find that helpful. When my comments get downvoted, sometimes I can figure out why. It's frivolous, off-topic, just plain wrong, etc. But quite often, I have no idea whatsoever, and I'm always curious about what the issue was. I think potentially valuable information and personal learning is lost.