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> "I am surprised I am losing karma for this. For what? An opposing view?" As I said above, here on HN, mere truth is not enough to make us consider a comment

> "I am surprised I am losing karma for this. For what? An opposing view?" As I said above, here on HN, mere truth is not enough to make us consider a comment to be a positive contribution. We select for interesting and directly relevant comments. Your comment is honest, but doesn't particularly add value to the discussion; you might consider it relevant, but I find it tangential and uninteresting. Downvotes are the HN community's way of signaling that this is not the sort of comment we'd like you to make on this story.

mercurial 12y ago
> Downvotes are the HN community's way of signaling that this is not the sort of comment we'd like you to make on this story. "should be the HN community's way" would be more accurate. It's not hard to find interesting comments downvoted because people disagree with them.
hnnewguy 12y ago
>"As I said above, here on HN, mere truth is not enough to make us consider a comment to be a positive contribution." It sounds like you'd like to think your community-of-choice is unique, but get over it. There is no "we" here, nor is there some amazing comment quality optimization going on. This place goes hive-mind like any other forum on the internet. "We're" not special.
- lotharbot 12y ago
  > "you'd like to think your community-of-choice is unique" All communities are unique. This is the only community I know of that obsesses over a guy who makes bingo cards for a living. That doesn't mean we're necessarily better than other communities, just that we have our own specific approach to downvotes that people coming from other communities might be surprised by. (In particular, we usually downvote tangential/uninteresting comments, memes, and humor -- edw519 is an exception because his humor is typically both topical and side-splittingly entertaining.) The person in question posted one of those types of comments, and then asked why it was being poorly received. He has now been educated as to what "we", in aggregate, are looking for.

mercurial 12y ago

> Downvotes are the HN community's way of signaling that this is not the sort of comment we'd like you to make on this story. "should be the HN community's way" would be more accurate. It's not hard to find interesting comments downvoted because people disagree with them.

hnnewguy 12y ago

>"As I said above, here on HN, mere truth is not enough to make us consider a comment to be a positive contribution." It sounds like you'd like to think your community-of-choice is unique, but get over it. There is no "we" here, nor is there some amazing comment quality optimization going on. This place goes hive-mind like any other forum on the internet. "We're" not special.

lotharbot 12y ago
> "you'd like to think your community-of-choice is unique" All communities are unique. This is the only community I know of that obsesses over a guy who makes bingo cards for a living. That doesn't mean we're necessarily better than other communities, just that we have our own specific approach to downvotes that people coming from other communities might be surprised by. (In particular, we usually downvote tangential/uninteresting comments, memes, and humor -- edw519 is an exception because his humor is typically both topical and side-splittingly entertaining.) The person in question posted one of those types of comments, and then asked why it was being poorly received. He has now been educated as to what "we", in aggregate, are looking for.