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this is how voting works tho

In practice, but not on paper. HN guidelines forbid that sort of voting behavior.

There is no guideline on HN forbidding down voting for disagreement. 'dang as recently as a month ago reiterated this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666145

Ah sorry, not sure where I got that idea from, then. I may've been confused by various subreddit mods establishing rules along the lines of "the downvote is not a disagree button".

Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574021

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