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So, the downvote signifies that someone REALLY disagrees with me? Care to elaborate the downvote? I must say that if you aren't willing to enter into a dialog

So, the downvote signifies that someone REALLY disagrees with me? Care to elaborate the downvote? I must say that if you aren't willing to enter into a dialog on an honestly written and non flaming post I'm disappointed in your integrity and maturity, whoever you are. @frostmathew - isn't downvoting supposed to be used to drop conversations that are trolling in nature? Not simply because you disagree with someone? Isn't this a place for constructive conversation and discourse? That is certainly why I value it so much and come here often to see what intelligent minds have to say about lots of issues. I don't like complaining about it, it just felt like I got trolled via the downvote and while I agree my complaining clutters the conversation, I have no idea who moderates such things.

frostmatthew 12y ago
I didn't downvote, but I would suggest reading Hacker News Guidelines[1], specifically: Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
frostmatthew 12y ago
> isn't downvoting supposed to be used to drop conversations that are trolling in nature I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness. - Paul Graham[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
- tzs 12y ago
  1. That quote is a tad over 7 years old. Does PG still feel that way? 2. Smart people occasionally say dumb things. This may be a case in point. The way HN makes articles very hard to read when they have only a handful of net negative down votes, whereas a handful of net up votes just moves the article up on the page, indicates that they are not functionally the opposite of each other. A down vote de facto means that you believe that people should not see the comment.

frostmatthew 12y ago

I didn't downvote, but I would suggest reading Hacker News Guidelines[1], specifically: Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

frostmatthew 12y ago

> isn't downvoting supposed to be used to drop conversations that are trolling in nature I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness. - Paul Graham[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

tzs 12y ago
1. That quote is a tad over 7 years old. Does PG still feel that way? 2. Smart people occasionally say dumb things. This may be a case in point. The way HN makes articles very hard to read when they have only a handful of net negative down votes, whereas a handful of net up votes just moves the article up on the page, indicates that they are not functionally the opposite of each other. A down vote de facto means that you believe that people should not see the comment.