That's a perfectly legitimate comment -you are explaining the way you feel- and it's a bit of an abuse of the down/upvote buttons to downvote it. I get that peo

That's a perfectly legitimate comment -you are explaining the way you feel- and it's a bit of an abuse of the down/upvote buttons to downvote it. I get that people disagree with it but it's polite and I'd say a good quality comment overall so it should be upvoted back to brightness. I'm basing this on one of dang's comments on being a "good citizen on HN": Downvoting for disagreement is not always bad, but it sometimes is. There should be some nuance here. Don't be indiscriminate. When a comment is blatantly false, downvoting is probably ok, especially when there's something else wrong with the comment. But high-quality, polite posts don't deserve penalizing just because you don't share their position. When you see one of those in negative territory, please be a good citizen and upvote it back to par. Users doing that is one of the community's self-correcting mechanisms, and it's more important now that we've made some downvotes more powerful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7608102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7608102 I'm trying very hard to learn to upvote high-quality, informative and civil comments with which I very strongly disagree.