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I'm honestly really surprised that someone on HN would assume HoneyPot was anything but a reference to the "technical" honeypot. Guy deserves a downvote.

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My initial thought was it was a link to some sort of sting operation also, as I did not know what Kippo was. I could definitely see sting operations as being interesting to the segment of this crowd with more anti-government leanings.

Downvotes are not for disagreeing or disliking a comment. Only if it doesn't add to the discussion. At least thats how it used to be, before HN traffic exploded and became redditized a while back. This should be communicated better.

I can only paraphrase PG because I don't want to spend any time digging for the actual comment, but he's basically said:

People can use downvotes however they want.

There is no guideline to communicate.

I can personally see the pros and cons of this stance. The cons are pretty obvious, but the big pro is that there shouldn't be discussions like you and I are having now.

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