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There's big problems with both downvoting and flagging: you don't know WHY people are doing it. Without that, you can't correct behavior.
by roflyear 3y ago
There's big problems with both downvoting and flagging: you don't know WHY people are doing it. Without that, you can't correct behavior.
- jjgreen 3y agoI'm regularly downvoted and I know exactly why: because I'm mocking Rust's curl | sh or Python's appalling packaging or whatever, no-one is going to "correct" that behaviour and it doesn't matter anyway; it's just HN karma.
- roflyear 3y agoIs that "why" though?
- brudgers 3y agoThe simplest correction that might work is don’t do what was downvoted or flagged, again.
- roflyear 3y agoRight. But there's a difference between that thing and why it was downvoted. It could have been downvoted because it is factually incorrect, which means you should be careful about posting incorrect information. It could have been downvoted because it's inflammatory. It could have been downvoted because it is redundant (doesn't add to conversation). Sometimes it's not clear, and you only can speculate.
- brudgers 3y agoInflammatory is self evident. Non-contributory is self evident.
- roflyear 3y agoI didn't say it wasn't obvious in ALL CASES. And even in those cases there are language and communication issues that make it not obvious. Someone who doesn't speak English for example may use a tone that comes across as inflammatory when they really are just trying to lightheartedly say "wtf mate" which is sometimes a perfectly fine response.