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> If you want legitimate spirited debate and can learn to ignore trolls removing the voting system would bring HN closer to the fantasy it's readers seem to bel
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
> If you want legitimate spirited debate and can learn to ignore trolls removing the voting system would bring HN closer to the fantasy it's readers seem to believe it is.
You're free to turn on the "showdead" setting to read comments that have been heavily downvoted or flagged. I had it turned on for a while, and then turned it off after confirming to myself "yep, didn't miss a thing".
- zer8k 3y agoI'm now at -4 score on this post. I find it funny that regularly you hear people specifically avoid calling this place a "social network" or "reddit-like". It's a wonderful ode to the dunning-kruger no-coder. There's an implication of pseudo-intellectual superiority in this community that can only be described as the merger of terminally online redditors and big tech. A meta-criticism of the fundamental scoring behavior of this website is met with downvotes and out of the 5 I've received I've gotten 2 comments. Neither explicitly countering my point, and none of them providing the "spirited debate" OP suggests exists here. The website is a hivemind. Period. Absolutely hilarious. Sometimes points demonstrate themselves. At least slashdot required you to have modpoints. Power tripping terminally online crybullies dominate every website scored by points.
- ahahahahah 3y ago> downvotes and out of the 5 I've received I've gotten 2 comments. You've certainly gotten more than 5.
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