I'm well aware of the "complaints about downvotes beget downvotes" meme and was expecting it here, but sometimes I am genuinely curious about the nature of the disagreement. Here I really just wanted to learn what people think the actual etymology is. I get and appreciate "I don't find this contribution helpful", but I really dislike a "I think you're factually wrong but can't be bothered to correct you" downvote.
As an aside, I wonder when "please don't make a quote from the HN commenting guidelines the only contribution of your comment" will join that list...
> As an aside, I wonder when "please don't make a quote from the HN commenting guidelines the only contribution of your comment" will join that list...
HN is largely community driven moderation, helping dang do his job, so I suspect this meta don't wouldn't make it
I didn't comment on the substance because others already had by then, not sure why they didn't prefer your OG comment...
As an aside, I wonder when "please don't make a quote from the HN commenting guidelines the only contribution of your comment" will join that list...