“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by daxorid on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:02PM (#17518138)

> Everytime we post an opinion against the consensus

Downvoting was, long ago, supposed to be used to indicate trolling, incivility, not substantive, etc. Sometime recently, dang and sctb have ruled that downvoting for disagreement is now perfectly acceptable.

In any event, I agree it's become a terrible method of hivemind enforcement. Have an upvote.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by detaro on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:27PM (#17518328)

> Sometime recently, dang and sctb have ruled that downvoting for disagreement is now perfectly acceptable.

You are wrong about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by dang on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:31AM (#17523238)

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by antpls on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:25PM (#17518320)

That is what I thought too. I read HN since so many years. Perfect example of a rating system turning into a bad censorship.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by tomhoward on Thursday July 12, 2018 @06:31PM (#17519163)

pg asserted that downvoting is fine to be used for disagreement in Feb 2008, when HN was less than a year old:

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

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by antpls on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:15AM (#17521730)

I don't care about pg tho

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by dang on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:32AM (#17523243)

The point is simply that he set the pattern for this site.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by antpls on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:57AM (#17524022)

Things have to change at some point, that's why Guido is taking a permanent vacation.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by tomhoward on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:55PM (#17527818)

The assertion being made, that you seemed to be endorsing, was that downvoting used to be only for incivil or troll comments, but that has changed recently under the newer moderation team.

As pg’s 2008 quote shows, that assertion is wrong.

Whether it should change now is a separate issue, but there seems to be no mood for that among the more active contributors to HN.

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