Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home

Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by alexman on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:18PM (#16127416)

I don't get it: do comments get downvoted on HN whenever there's any mention of or opinion on difference between genders? Disagreement shouldn't lead to downvote.

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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by lurr on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:13PM (#16127922)

> Disagreement shouldn't lead to downvote

Actually PG said the opposite. I used to have the comment saved, but lost it in a format.

Anyway, people also downvote because they are sick of talking about this.

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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by alexman on Friday January 12, 2018 @12:42AM (#16130658)

I'm surprised if PG did say that. If disagreement should lead to downvote, then unpopular opinions would not see the light of day.

Also, if one's sick of discussing a topic, s/he can simply don't read about or discuss it. Why prevent others from discussing it?

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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by dang on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:15AM (#16131314)

Things pg said about downvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691

It's how HN has always worked, and in my opinion needs to. A site that cares about discussion quality needs those white blood cells.

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Re:Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home by alexman on Friday January 12, 2018 @06:13PM (#16137127)

Thanks for sharing the threads. I always think that downvoting is for discouraging bad arguments from DH0 to DH3 [1] (for discussion quality as you mentioned). Now I realize that even convincing arguments at DH6 can be downvoted as long as one disagrees with it.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

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