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Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
- gnabgib 10mo ago(2020) At the time (118 points, 165 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146746
- damnitbuilds 10mo ago"In order to vote something down, you need to give a reason." THAT is what Hacker News needs ( and Reddit and Facebook and everywhere else ). Because "Don't like the facts in your comment" is the reason for 90% of downvotes here.
- bell-cot 10mo agoSpeaking as a regular HN downvotee, I'd say "don't like your facts" accounts for at most 25% of downvoting. Sure, you can always make a moderation system more complex. At best, that will somewhat reduce the complaints. At the cost of both the added complexity, and all the new-and-undesirable ways in which humans users can interact with that shiny new complexity.
- Rochus 10mo agoRather remove the downvote function completely, because it is mostly misused and stimulates the "lower instincts" of people.
- Rochus 10mo agoBetter? I made a few posts about my work some years ago an met significantly more naggers and nitpickers than on HN; I didn't see a downvote function (in contrast to the author of the article), but flagging was obviously misused a lot.