[gurchik]

> The guidelines define “interesting” as “anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” Surely a real contribution to the OSS sustainability crisis counts?

Arguing about whether the submission meets the guidelines is pointless when it ignores that users downvote what isn't interesting in their own opinion. The moderators are never going to artificially keep a submission active after users have downvoted it just because it meets a definition in the guidelines.

[thinkmassive]

Is it possible to downvote a submission? Do you mean flagging?

That doesn’t seem appropriate for something that’s simply uninteresting, based on the site guidelines:

> If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

[dragonwriter]

Uninteresting is off-topic, per the guidelines. “On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” (emphasis added)

[yayitswei]

When you have 500 points you gain the ability to downvote.

[corobo]

That's only for comments, as far as I can see you can't downvote a submission

[whit537]

It is curious that users would downvote/flag our post yesterday but not Colin's post today, which begins, "Yesterday I read a great article from Sentry". I agree it's kinda shouting into the wind to complain. Oh well. :)