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I've experienced a couple of really bad downvotes as well lately, and they had definitely no intention of editorial feedback, but it was quite obviously mindles
by rndn 12y ago
I've experienced a couple of really bad downvotes as well lately, and they had definitely no intention of editorial feedback, but it was quite obviously mindless prejudice, almost on the level of /r/politics or /r/worldnews. I wished HN would replace downvotes with a system for short and private annotations, so that people could receive concrete feedback, not something that is vaguely implied by a number. That would also remove the problem that people mindlessly jump on the downvote bandwagon.
- a3n 12y agoAnd/or, make up and downvotes public. A link from a comment to the list of uppers and downers. Or make it semi-private, and only the commenter can see the list. But that would just encourage useless activity as commenters selectively out their up and downvotes.
- res0nat0r 12y agoEven better would be to turn on an option for a user to show/hide political posts from the site all together
- ptaipale 12y agoThat would be nice, but in practice, there's no commonly accepted clear criteria for what is "political" and what is not, and any attempts to enforce some such criteria would likely bring arbitrary and unfair results.