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I upvoted you even though I disagree heartily with what you are saying; and I would like to point people to pg's essay http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html h
by olefoo 14y ago
I upvoted you even though I disagree heartily with what you are saying; and I would like to point people to pg's essay http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html to remind them that this site is not reddit, and that the downvote should be used rarely, and mostly to quell noise and abuse.
That said, one should not have to give up using a cell-phone to avoid being tracked. Nor should ones willingness to use facebook to talk to family be taken as a blanket permission to mine your personal data stream for every last bit of value in it.
- Semaphor 14y agoWhat you describe is not supposed to happen on Reddit either. But idiocy takes over whenever a group of people gets large enough.
- axelfreeman 14y agoif you have a core group which is caring about the health of the community then you might have not this problem. but if the community gets overuned by trolls the admin should take some steps to prevent it. (kick the trolls, close registration temporaly, etc.) (sorry, if my english is broken. i'm a german guy)
- Semaphor 14y agoHard to kick people for downvoting stuff, would have to be done manually and that doesn't seem feasible. Cheers from another German;)