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I think this downvoting thing is out of control. What was even remotely offensive about this correction?

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  "offensive" isn't the only reason for downvoting. "Not a substantive addition to the conversation" is one (of many) other bases. If you are going to complain about downvoting [1] why do so based on the unwarranted assumption that the downmod must be for offensiveness? [1] And you shouldn't, see the Guidelines [2] under "In Comments" [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • vacri 12y ago
    In my opinion, if HN doesn't want puzzled people to ask why they've been downmodded, then instead of putting a line in the Guidelines saying "don't do this", they should separate the downmod into "I disagree" and "flag this as a bad comment", with the latter item the one that reduces the text weight. It's clearly broken - people have been doing this for as long as I've been here, and it's not going to change (sadly, 'it' means both the behaviour, and HN's braindead downmod mechanism).