[eanzenberg]

Oh please, HN is one of the least trustworthy areas of my life primarily because of its echo-chamber, vocal minority ways. All online communities that allow upvoting / downvoting devolve to this. In fact, I’ve started perusing old-style BB sites of my interests which explicitly have no upvoting or downvoting, forcing me to read through comments and replies and where the only nominal “upvoting” occurs in popular threads with lots of posts that continuously push to the top of the BB.

It’s a literal breath of fresh air. I’m close to done with community sites that allow upvotes/downvotes.

[lowkeynthorough]

Curiously, stackoverflow uses upvotes and downvotes too. How does that work?

[johnfn]

A lot of content on StackOverflow is trivially verifiable - just put it in your IDE and see if it runs. You'll notice that the more subjective questions on StackOverflow almost always 1) get closed immediately or 2) are filled with bad answers.

(You'd think getting a refund is trivially verifiable, too, but who's going to go to all that work?)

[zymhan]

StackExchange is a like a highly moderated subreddit mixed with a Wiki. Mods ensure the posts are of minimum quality, require sources for novel claims, and remove disinformation. An SE community also tends to strongly embrace the general rules for SE, which keeps it from being overrun with "reposts" and "clickbait".

[rplnt]

> just use jquery

Not that well.

[ColanR]

Any recommendations?

[iRomain]

Have my upvote!