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I am opening a bottle of champagne and at the same time answer my own question: it took 3 weeks for the community to get rid off a tyrant. Well done Reddit! Fr

I am opening a bottle of champagne and at the same time answer my own question: it took 3 weeks for the community to get rid off a tyrant. Well done Reddit! Friendly reminder that if you are using downvotes for disagreement than you are doing it wrong.

prawn 11y ago
PG has posted on HN saying that downvoting for disagreement is fine.
- caminante 11y ago
  I didn't know this for HN, though I'd seen it on Reddit. Thanks for passing this along. On HN, it isn't as much a problem, from my experience, because the downvote button is masked for users with <~500 karma and I haven't seen many false positives. On reddit, I was familiar with the saying -- "downvote isn't disagree button." Though, the current rediquette has removed that language. Compare [1] (old) v. [2] (current). [1] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette?v=08ebd986-6459-11e2-83d1-12313d182d8d https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette?v=08ebd986-6459-11e2... [2] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
  - stefantalpalaru 11y ago
    > On HN, it isn't as much a problem, from my experience, because the downvote button is masked for users with <~500 karma and I haven't seen many false positives. Unfortunately, it is a serious problem. The moment you become a dissonant voice is the moment you're downvoted into unreadability by the choir. Make no mistake, many people here have enough karma points to downvote and they are quick to react.
    - arprocter 11y ago
      I can't tell if the fact you got downvoted for this was a joke or not. Too many levels of meta?
- istvan__ 11y ago
  Any link or should I just believe you? I really like to believe everything I read on the internet btw. :)
  - caminante 11y ago
    I found PG's comment[1] from over 7 years ago. Granted, HN has undergone subtle voting changes since then. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 edit: yeah, the downvote threshold system was bumped up ~1 year after PG's comment.
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prawn 11y ago

PG has posted on HN saying that downvoting for disagreement is fine.

caminante 11y ago
I didn't know this for HN, though I'd seen it on Reddit. Thanks for passing this along. On HN, it isn't as much a problem, from my experience, because the downvote button is masked for users with <~500 karma and I haven't seen many false positives. On reddit, I was familiar with the saying -- "downvote isn't disagree button." Though, the current rediquette has removed that language. Compare [1] (old) v. [2] (current). [1] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette?v=08ebd986-6459-11e2-83d1-12313d182d8d https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette?v=08ebd986-6459-11e2... [2] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
- stefantalpalaru 11y ago
  > On HN, it isn't as much a problem, from my experience, because the downvote button is masked for users with <~500 karma and I haven't seen many false positives. Unfortunately, it is a serious problem. The moment you become a dissonant voice is the moment you're downvoted into unreadability by the choir. Make no mistake, many people here have enough karma points to downvote and they are quick to react.
  - arprocter 11y ago
    I can't tell if the fact you got downvoted for this was a joke or not. Too many levels of meta?
istvan__ 11y ago
Any link or should I just believe you? I really like to believe everything I read on the internet btw. :)
- caminante 11y ago
  I found PG's comment[1] from over 7 years ago. Granted, HN has undergone subtle voting changes since then. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 edit: yeah, the downvote threshold system was bumped up ~1 year after PG's comment.
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