Yes: > dang on Jan 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches ... [1] > Things pg said about downvotes: >

Yes: > dang on Jan 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches ... [1] > Things pg said about downvotes: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691 > It's how HN has always worked, and in my opinion needs to. A site that cares about discussion quality needs those white blood cells. The first links reads: pg on Feb 16, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: PG on trolls I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness. It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that. The second link: pg on Dec 10, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: News.YC Growth Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement. The third link: pg on June 15, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: The default form of disagreement IIRC we first had this conversation about a month after launch. Downvotes have always been used to express disagreement. Or more precisely, a negative score has: users seem not to downvote something they disagree with if it already has a sufficiently negative score. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314