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by tailspin2019 1020 days ago
> if I'm not doing it, someone else will do it, so it will be done anyway.

I downvoted you for this. I considered not doing it but figured someone else would downvote you anyway.

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But upvotes and downvotes are a form of regulation (global same enforcement for everyone), and not a form of market liquidity.

They'd be market-liquid if HN learned an embedding of who-upvotes-what and created a bubble for each user where each sees the comments they'd upvote.

In facebook/instagram/tiktok/linkedin your comment would work.

(On an unrelated not, I sort wish HN would do that for posts; as I'm not interested in 95% of what makes the HN frontpage. Please bring me back hardcore technical content, please let me ignore societal/self-development/CSS/drama/etc posts. No judgement but I just don't care about that content.)