[sctb]

There is little that can be gleaned from voting, especially early on. It's just plain noisy and you don't know what someone is objecting to.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[ForrestN]

Agree to disagree in this case, wherein I believe two or more people's gestures do communicate something real regardless of the eventual balancing out. Thanks for the reminder.

[gammateam]

> It's just plain noisy and you don't know what someone is objecting to.

Then why does it rate limit the poster who might have spurred a discussion and wants to find out? They can't even post anymore until hours after the discussion died down even though little can be gleaned from the reason anyone downvoted them? There is some conflicting logic going around