| EDIT: I wrote my post before I realised how old the submitted article is! Disappointing that the problems listed are probably worse today than they were three years ago. > 1. Lack of a down-vote means vocal minorities are disproportionately represented. How many Hacker News users really want to see 5 stories about the TSA body scanners every time they log in? It doesn’t matter, because as long as 10% of them up-vote every story on the topic it’s going to flood the top page with them until they move on to something else. FLAG. You only get limited flags, but FLAG THESE FUCKING SUBMISSIONS. > Some people will say “they have flags” but flags are not down-votes, and even most people like myself who wish there were down-votes don’t use them as such. Flagging is for spam, trolling, etc. I may not like what you have to say, but I’ll fight for your right to not be flagged for saying it. Flags act like down votes for submissions. In the absence of down votes flags are the only tool available for Submissions that do not belong here. I'd agree that flags should not be used that way for comments. > The community is full of ideologues to the point where the comments are most often just predictable talking points being regurgitated ad nauseum. People need to downvote empty idealogagy. People need to down vote a lot more than they do. Perhaps it's a problem that only ten % of the site can downvote. I sometimes wonder what would happen if HN reversed the down / up vote privs - anyone can downvote, but you need 500 karma before you can upvote. Anyway, sorry to see you go. Have fun, and good luck! |