Stop down-voting ideas other than yours

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to all the hackers: i see more and more recently people down-voting people for no real good reason other than different opinion.

IMHO down-vote should be to flag false/bad or not useful comments, not to ignore anyone who thinks a bit different from you. keep this community live by allowing different comments and let people speak freely on out-of-consensus topics. it can only help the discussions.

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This comes up every few days, but almost never with specific links, and it's hard to address concerns without examples.

Bad downvotes are a thing, but so is the temptation for commenters to interpret downvotes as 'groupthink suppression of my independent thought' instead of seeing what might have been bad about what they posted.

What is a false/bad/useless comments?

If you comment to state an opinion different from mine I can estimate that your comment is false, bad and useless.

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