I hate that HN lets you downvote without an explanation.
edit: And now I'm being down voted for asking a question!? Wtf is going on.. I'm trying to get information here..
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
I do find it very strange that we're not supposed to foster discussion, but rather quietly accept silencing of dissenting views. Seems very against the meaningful discussions that I come up HN for. Strange for me.
Thank you, despite it breaking the rules I guess. I'm let down by HN this day. :/
Second rule of HN: you get the idea....
Eg, if someone writes a long well thought out post, full of information, and is down voted heavily - should we not question it? It seems the HN mantra is "well the masses have spoken, best not to question them".
I don't give a damn about someones magic internet points, but what I'm being told is I cannot try and prompt actual discussion? I just have to remain dumb about something I'm missing, because that's what a HNer is supposed to do?
This seems so wrong :/
Honestly, this seems like an above (not by you exactly) of the root idea. By all means, don't talk about down votes, but I wasn't - I was talking about the content, that others apparently did not find worthy. Why was it not worthy?
Why is it a good rule to not understand why things aren't worthy? Again, I'm not talking about magic internet numbers, I'm talking about content - yet we're not allowed to do that either. Wtf?
I can only assume everyone else is perfectly fine with it - except yours is not the first post I've seen like this.