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Stop down-voting ideas other than yours
to all the hackers:
i see more and more recently people down-voting people for no real good reason other than different opinion.
IMHO down-vote should be to flag false/bad or not useful comments, not to ignore anyone who thinks a bit different from you.
keep this community live by allowing different comments and let people speak freely on out-of-consensus topics. it can only help the discussions.
- dudul 11y agoWhat is a false/bad/useless comments? If you comment to state an opinion different from mine I can estimate that your comment is false, bad and useless.
- dang 11y agoThis comes up every few days, but almost never with specific links, and it's hard to address concerns without examples. Bad downvotes are a thing, but so is the temptation for commenters to interpret downvotes as 'groupthink suppression of my independent thought' instead of seeing what might have been bad about what they posted.