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Why would you downvote this comment?
by gkya 13y ago
Why would you downvote this comment?
- dang 13y agoPlease see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7619287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7619287. Your comment was a good case of this. I gave it a corrective upvote and the problem went away. (In general, please don't comment about comments being downvoted, even when it's annoying and/or mystifying. As the guidelines say, it's off-topic, never helps, and makes for boring reading.)
- soneca 13y agoI understand this guideline, but i disagree. I think would be great if some downvoters could explain themselves. As in this case. Indeed, who would downvote this comment? And it is hard to notice one or two downvotes, so is up to the user to ask/announce this. Downvote productive and thoughtfull comments, specially when the comment is taking a position against the parent, is very nocive to the quality of the debate. And there is no guarantee that would be a "corrective upvote" as in an invisible hand of justice. So I have this idea that complain about injust downvotes may be off-topic (as thousands of other kinds of comments), but should help the quality of the comments if it was more encouraged, the same for "being boring".