[exstudent2]

I thought about upvoting it since I really appreciate your honest discussion. In the end I don't agree with it enough though.

I commented here because I strongly disagree that this type of public blasting of hr issues is appropriate.

Your piece is definitely sensible and well written even if I don't agree with it.

[Mz]

You don't have to "agree" with it to upvote it. You can upvote it to bookmark it. Items you upvote are items you can revisit. You can upvote it to say "Yes, I would like to see more of this on HN." You can upvote it in hopes of helping it get to the front page and get real discussion, instead of people continuing to discuss stuff like this all the time.

You aren't obligated to upvote it. But upvote does not denote agreement per se.

/pedantic

[tzs]

> You can upvote it to bookmark it

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> You can upvote it to say "Yes, I would like to see more of this on HN."

I'd do a lot more of the latter if not for the former. Because HN uses the same mechanism for both I tend to avoid up-voting stories unless they are stories I want to bookmark for later reference. If they are just interesting but not something I think I'll need to refer to later I avoid up-voting so as to not clutter up my bookmarks.

I wish HN separated up-voting from bookmarking, like Reddit does.