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Because reddit unironically has better decorum around usage of their upvote/downvote system than HN does. People on HN downvote objectively correct information
by Der_Einzige 3mo ago
Because reddit unironically has better decorum around usage of their upvote/downvote system than HN does.
People on HN downvote objectively correct information because they don't like it 24/7. There's a reason the creator of Zig left and gave the computer version of a middle finger on the way out to HN!
- dgellow 3mo agofwiw pg said early on that downvoting for disagreement is perfectly fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 commenting about voting is also something the HN guidelines warns against: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bellowsgulch 3mo agoReminds me of telling employees to not discuss their wages. If voting here is such a toxic experience, maybe HN needs to wake up and smell the garbage.
- nickthegreek 3mo agoYou define OPs post as "objectively correct information" even though it is an unknown future event for which they provided zero evidence?
- freakynit 3mo agoThere's nothing wrong about that. Historically I have experienced this behaviour on hackernews multiple times, hence my comment. Since when have hackernews started to become toxic like stackoverflow used to be?
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