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You're being downvoted because you're making good points. Downvotes reduce visibility of comments and discourage participation of people that go against the pol
by ivewonyoung 2y ago
You're being downvoted because you're making good points. Downvotes reduce visibility of comments and discourage participation of people that go against the political leanings.
A good chunk of the time I see flagged comments that are innocuous opinions.
- bmn__ 2y agome too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638021 Note dang's reply, he sees nothing wrong with how it is, in his view, there is no groupthink problem, it's all just banned accounts.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoFlagged dead posts are different from just [dead] posts though. Flagged were manually flagged in that thread, while only [dead] comments are from banned accounts,
- johnnyanmac 2y agoI downvoted because flamewar bait is discouraged on HN. The last sentence was very much flaemwar bait. On a personal level, I only flag outright malicious comments.