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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 esturk on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:36AM (#15794703)
I feel that down voting without any currency is too cheap. Instead, if people have to use up 1 karma to downvote then people would be more considerate about down voting. This would also restrict people who are just negative in general that likes to downvote everything. People who has looks of karma is free to downvote however they like.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there a way we can prevent down-voting for dis... by wutbrodo on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:02AM (#15795069)
It's an interesting idea, but it would systemically tendency towards ossifying views that the community already holds/has held in the past. If those who hold a certain opinion already have more karma, a feedback loop is created whereby they're more free to downvote the opposing opinion, the other side is less able to downvote theirs, so the original group doesn't lose as much karma, etc etc.
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