[bowsamic]

It's a modern HN thing, back in the day downvoting was reserved for really obviously off topic stuff, like spam. Now people use downvoting like on reddit, as an "I'm angry and I disagree" button

[ergl]

Back in 2008, pg said:

> Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347

[DrNosferatu]

Aren't we better off if valuable, unpopular opinions are freely expressed?

Otherwise there's a bias to only say what's popular.

[bowsamic]

He's wrong, also it's pg...