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Re:I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air by bad_user on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @07:41AM (#1161209)
It's not for you to decide what down-voting is for.

Some people don't like lies, other people don't like off-topic posts, other people don't like fallacies, and other people just don't have time to write a disagreement post ... especially if the assertions made in the down-voted comment aren't worth bothering with.

And if down-voting should have a purpose ... then it should definitely be for filtering out people not in HN's demographic.

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Re:I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air by jon_dahl on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @01:54PM (#1162174)
And if down-voting should have a purpose ... then it should definitely be for filtering out people not in HN's demographic.

That might be true for people who want to use HN to talk about politics or religion, but Jason is definitely in our demographic. He's a web startup founder, whether or not his startup sucks.

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