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downvote_me

81 karma · joined October 23, 2017

Firm believer that the downvote capability (negative voting) is poisoning almost any online community and makes it regress into a high-school mentality that hinders meaningful conversations.

In short: ban downvoting from HN.

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downvote_me··on “You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”
Reminded me of Daniel Blake http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/
downvote_me··on Ursula Le Guin has died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed one of her best as well.
downvote_me··on Newly Declassified Documents: NATO Wouldn't Move Past East German Border
How typical. Downvote anything it happens to challenge your beliefs or interests without providing _any_ proof of why they (your beliefs/interests) happen to fall into the right side of things.

One more time @HN admins: Please remove downvote capability. All it does is poisoning the conversations and putting HN community into a downward spiral of adolescent behaviors.

downvote_me··on Office Parties Feel the Chill
Now we get downvoted for stating the obvious in HN. I wonder how much more down the drain this site will go before you consider removing the downvote feature. It's down to vindictive teenager schoolyard now and its getting lower still. @admins
downvote_me··on Office Parties Feel the Chill
Paywalled
downvote_me··on Record low sea ice extent in the Chukchi Sea
The commend says 'floating ice' the link you point at says 'ice on land'. The commender is 100% right but apparently the HN crowd has a lot of people that just love to downvote (which is why downvoting should be banned).
downvote_me··on Ask HN: Is working on online casinos unethical?
Exactly. Online casinos are just the tip of the iceberg here. Unbelievably large sums of money and grief are lost and created respectively in real world lotteries and casinos which nowadays are almost entirely computerized - thus made up by developers working in tech companies.
downvote_me··on Why your programmers just want to code
There is a huge amount of insight on this post and I could not upvote this story enough. It is exactly the onboarding process and all the BS/political powerplay and non-productive rhetorics that pass that exact message to a programmer. Multiply this by ten if you happen to be a non-native developer in a mostly ethnic company where your language skills are below native. So -even though it is never clearly said in the open- the message gets to be 'you are just a "foreign" code monkey'.
downvote_me··on Ask HN: Why aren't Paradise Papers discussed more on HN?
Because HN is dominated by 'free-trade' proponents to whom Paradise Papers seem like the natural way of doing business (i.e. taxation is akin to socialism).

Just watch how they treat this comment now.