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by tren-hard 2230 days ago
And that goes against the HN guidelines for down voting comments.

You're just suppressing someone else's opinion because you don't agree with it, not because it is wrong or inappropriate smh

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No, downvote for disagree is within the guidelines [1].

Even so, I try to instead use the standard of "does not contribute to the discussion", which I think this qualifies as (under my earlier understanding of the comment) because it's off-topic hobby-horsing, made worse by proposing a bizarre mechanism without acknowledging the illegality.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11649750