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That is indeed the joke. Hopefully you don't get downvoted for asking a question.
by bloopernova 3y ago
That is indeed the joke. Hopefully you don't get downvoted for asking a question.
- lostmsu 3y agoIt was a very well veiled one too. If not for your comment I would not have realized it. I suspect people downvoting it didn't get it either.
- bloopernova 3y agoSome folks forget that not everyone is "terminally online" and won't get every reference and idiom.
- WJW 3y agoThis is just something you might learn during history lessons in school, no online-ness is needed.
- bumby 3y agoI think it would be much better if people focused downvoting on comments that go against HN guidelines rather than questions or comments they disagree with.
- lostmsu 3y agoNo, if a comment is against guidelines you are supposed to flag it.
- bumby 3y agoHow would you propose a method of limiting the downvoting of comments that are salient and relevant but otherwise elicit a knee-jerk emotionally disagreeable response? Or do you consider that ability a feature? It seems to me to erode curious debate.
- lostmsu 3y agoNot sure I understood your question, but you can't really control what others will do. E.g. people can downvote or flag without any reason whatsoever.
- bumby 3y agoThe question relates to how can you create a system that helps align peoples incentives with the goal of the forum. Imagine if you could allow users to delete comments they don’t agree with. That would create the antithesis of a curious discussion, so that feature isn’t available. So, yes, a good system can constrain what users are allowed to do with intelligent guardrails.