Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone with the Opposite Sex

Re:Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone wi... by dijit on Monday July 03, 2017 @02:37AM (#14686298)

I use downvotes to signify that content was off-topic or against the site guidelines. I am guilty of upvoting due to agreement or if someone put a lot of effort into a articulate response.

But. While I might be a minority with these beliefs, shouldn't people be offering me counter-arguments instead of downvoting? It feels bad to not have a dialog. "You're wrong imo" is not a very useful reply; and that's all you get with downvotes.

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Re:Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone wi... by vacri on Monday July 03, 2017 @02:48AM (#14686352)

Flagging is for when things are against site guidelines. Downvotes just mean disagreement; it's been that way since forever, and pg has stated that downvotes-for-disagreeing is fine on HN. They're just imaginary internet points anyway.

The stupid thing is that it just takes one person disagreeing in order to grey out your text - that's an HN fault, not a human fault.

> shouldn't people be offering me counter-arguments instead of downvoting?

Probably, but there's a lot of things people should be doing which they don't do.

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