HN Downvoting Practices
Discussions revolve around the etiquette and guidelines for downvoting on Hacker News, including debates on using downvotes for disagreement versus substantive issues, and complaints about meta-commenting on votes.
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HN encourages downvoting for disagreement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
Heads up: you're being downvoted yourself, because on HN, downvotes are (also) for disagreeing, according to pg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Downvotes aren't necessarily punishment; they mean "I want less of this on HN". It might just be that people don't think your comment contributes to the type of discussion they want to have.
It is a typical HN behaviour to downvote you when they don't like your comment regardless of whether the comment is right or not even though you are not supposed to downvote for those reasons
HN Guidelines:> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hope people who downvote dissenting opinions are outright banned from hn
It breaks the HN guidelines to go on about downvotes like this. Please don't.
Please don't take this personally, HN downvotes based on disagreement.
Via downvotes HN is making sure your opinion is invalid
Downvotes for disageement has been an accepted practice since the beginning of HN