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don't downvote posts that you disagree with. Feel free to downvote low quality posts, posts against the guidelines or other but far too often I am seeing posts
by BorisMelnik 11y ago
don't downvote posts that you disagree with. Feel free to downvote low quality posts, posts against the guidelines or other but far too often I am seeing posts get "ganged up on" from a group of people downvoting an opinion that isn't popular.
- DanBC 11y ago(I did not downvote you) Downvote to disagree is embeded in HN culture. It is bound to happen - it happens everywhere that has post voting. Better would be to upvote any post that you think is unfairly downvoted. (Most people have upvote privs. Few people have downvote privs.)
- brudgers 11y agoTelling people how to vote is a particularly useless form of meta-discussion.
- BorisMelnik 11y agoisn't this thread in fact, meta?
- brudgers 11y agoYes. That's why I flagged it...meta-discussions tend to produce useless posts as we are empirically demonstrating.