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One possibility (as someone who did not downvote) that could lead well-meaning people to sincerely disagree with you: Your framing of the problem of empowering
by hawkice 12y ago
One possibility (as someone who did not downvote) that could lead well-meaning people to sincerely disagree with you:
Your framing of the problem of empowering professional women treats women as professional objects being acting upon by men, and not professional subjects of their own destiny. Many could see your proposal as perhaps self-defeating.
- neilellis 12y agoThat's totally fair enough, but I don't believe that down-voting should be done on opinion - as it can bury a point of view. Very happy with people disagree-ing with me that's their prerogative of course! But down-voting someone is like flagging them. You should upvote something because you think it's a good comment. But never downvote unless the comment is abusive, flamebait etc. anyway IMHO :-)
- uaygsfdbzf 12y agoYou're free to use votes as you please, but down-voting is not at all flagging for abuse, and there's no reason people should have to treat it as such. This has come up a few times in the past, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 shows that downvotes are clearly not just a flagging mechanism for abusive content.