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Comment by hiou | Hacker News Reader

Anonymous downvoting is pretty popular around here. I agree it's a very rude thing to do. Also, just an FYI, I was scolded the other day for acknowledging the downvoting in an edit.

Edit: case and point

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Please don't be surprised by this behavior. It's in the guidelines to do this and is what most of us would prefer.

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.

By "most of us" who exactly are you referring to? I wasn't aware there was some kind of user survey etc that was used to determine that stuff. I thought one person just added that to the bottom of the comments guidelines. Was there a vote or something? I'm very curious how you know that is what "most of us would prefer".

Can you point to any evidence that people enjoy talking about downvoting? More people are allowed to upvote than are allowed to downvote so if your post is negative, you're clearly doing something the majority of people reading it disagree with.

Can you point to any evidence that people enjoy being down voted without an explanation? Clearly the fact that there has to be two entries in a fairly short comment guidelines points to the reality that many people have expressed that they do not like being down voted without any explanation.

And since it is such a frequent occurrence, would that not point to the fact that people do enjoy talking about being down voted?

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