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Re:Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... ... by kburn on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @11:39PM (#1023828)
I don't think you're right. The reasons seem to be that people are downmodding as a social normalization function. It's like saying "don't post more like that please".

I think you are taking downmods a bit too personally.

Re:Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... ... by elblanco on Friday January 01, 2010 @06:44AM (#1025626)
Well, different people are having different takes on the semantics I guess. How about a quota though? Nobody likes an overly negative person at a party. IRL, we can't enforce good behavior that way, but here we can through the power of software.
Re:Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... ... by kburn on Friday January 01, 2010 @05:50PM (#1026393)
I don't think a quota makes sense. But a comment/vote does.

I don't want to limit the amount of times a person can disagree with me (at risk of allowing for disagreeable persons).