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Yes, thanks, I should have mentioned I thought about that - but the unruliness of the community turned me off. I assumed this is the case because anyone can dow
by villageidiot 18y ago
Yes, thanks, I should have mentioned I thought about that - but the unruliness of the community turned me off. I assumed this is the case because anyone can downvote. Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members can downvote. That said, I suppose I could use the reddit code and tweak the downvoting feature to only provide it to users who have established some credibility in the community :)
- davi 18y ago"Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members can downvote." I think HN is more polite because: 1) when people flag a submission as off-topic, it gets killed 2) people here often care about their reputations, because they may work professionally with other people here, now or in the future 3) when name calling starts, Paul Graham often steps in, and people care about what he thinks (see item 2 above) None of these attributes can be found in the HN source code.