Re:Tell HN: Downvotes and Upvotes
by CalChris on Monday December 12, 2016 @08:39PM
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Down votes are a good thing. When I get them, and I do, I wonder why I got them. Sometimes I'm OK with that. Sometimes I wonder if I've been misunderstood and could have written it better. Either which way, it's blunt, simple and useful feedback.
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> Sometimes I'm OK with that. Sometimes I wonder if I've been misunderstood and could have written it better.
And if you had an actual reply telling you what "wrong" with your post, wouldn't that be more useful? Sometimes people downvote simply because they misunderstood/misread your post.
> Either which way, it's blunt, simple and useful feedback.
I'll give you "simple" out of those three. What is "blunt" about it? And for useful, see above.