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Most people, I believe, downvote because they do not agree with someone's opinion. If they do, they're doing it wrong. Downvote someone for not contributing t
by warp 17y ago
Most people, I believe, downvote because they do not agree with someone's opinion.
If they do, they're doing it wrong. Downvote someone for not contributing to the discussion.
- fnid 17y agoOne of the problems is that people don't down vote for the same reasons. Some down because they disagree, others to resort topics, others because they don't like the person's comment, tone, bias, etc... Without a consistent use of the down vote, the effect is undesired by most.
- Semiapies 17y ago"the effect is undesired by most" Says who?
- fnid 17y agosays whoever upvoted me.
- Semiapies 17y agoOne person upvoted you, at the time of my writing this. One person is not "most". Everyone commenting in this topic is not "most". Everyone who's ever started a thread against down-voting is not "most", as best as I can tell.
- chrischen 17y agoI think he means the effect is undesired because we're trying to get rid of "stupid" comments but in practice such a system gives way to abuse.
- Semiapies 17y agoPeople keep saying that, and people keep linking to pg saying that's part of the intended use. Shall we avoid the pointlessness of this argument?
- tokenadult 17y agoFrom the keyboard of pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 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. It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that.