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>Why did someone down vote me for asking a question? Don't be so goddam sensitive. It's getting to the point now where people are downvoting on HN not just bad
by deciplex 12y ago
>Why did someone down vote me for asking a question? Don't be so goddam sensitive.
It's getting to the point now where people are downvoting on HN not just bad or off-topic posts, or posts they disagree with (which is already pretty close to ridiculous), but even just posts they don't think they themselves would have taken the time to write out. I'm pretty sure this post will be downvoted to a very light grey, for example.
It's gotten to the point where if I see a greyed-out post I just automatically give it an upvote. The environment around here has gotten so toxic that it is more often the case that such posts are better than average anyway.
- aianus 12y agoHacker News is well on its way to turning into a closed-minded circlejerk just like reddit. Do you know of any alternatives?
- deciplex 12y agoaianus you appear to be hellbanned. Looking at your post history it isn't clear to me why, but your post is dead anyway. Seems it was recent? Kinda ironic considering the subject at hand. FWIW, to answer your question, reddit with a good list of subscribed subreddits, still does the trick IMO. Good enough, anyway.