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It took me more than two years to be able to downvote people. This is not a good thing.
by iopq 11y ago
It took me more than two years to be able to downvote people. This is not a good thing.
- edgarvaldes 11y agoI still can't downvote after almost 3 years. I don't comment very often, so I don't have an incentive to chase the downvote privilege. But the thing is, after all this time, I dont want to downvote anymore, like the first time I came here. I just read and enjoy the place.
- mreiland 11y agoI can't downvote people, nor do I have any interest in doing so. I don't upvote people either.
- Vaskivo 11y agoSure it is. I believe it is better to elevate good posts/posts that I like, than silencing bad posts/posts that I dislike. I think there should only be UPvotes.
- iopq 11y agoThat's how you get troll posts. Enough people upvote an obvious troll to give it exposure, and not upvoting it does nothing.
- cozuya 11y agoHN's strategy of burying unpopular posts is very, very strange to me. While reddit's is similar, at least you can disable it manually - to do that for HN would require tampermonkey or the equivalent. Half the time I wind up just highlighting the text to read what someone wrote anyways. I don't really get it.
- adrianscott 11y agoInteresting to see this post drop off of HN front page from #2 to #70+ very quickly despite 80 comments and 40 points at the time... #curious
- cgearhart 11y agoI've been around here close to 5 years and I still can't downvote. I wouldn't say that it is a bad thing -- it just causes me to use HN very differently than Reddit (which seems to be the point).