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A comment on Ask HN: Is there a way we can prevent down-voting for disagreements?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a way we can prevent down-voting for dis... by lgas on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:09PM (#15793390)
Paul Graham seems to think downvoting as disagreement is fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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Re:Ask HN: Is there a way we can prevent down-voting for dis... by DanBC on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @09:55AM (#15797732)
He also thought it was a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057338

I used to agree with the comment you linked, and this other one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683

But then people pointed out a bunch of comments that got downvotes. These were polite comments, making a coherent point, on-topic and not attacking others.

And there are a couple of accounts who appear to have most of their comments insta-downvoted, even if there's nothing wrong with them.

One solution: almost all logged-in accounts have the ability to upvote. Few accounts have the ability to downvote. So if anyone sees a downvoted comment they can supply a corrective upvote.

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