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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by meowface on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:26PM (#17930535)
In practice, but not on paper. HN guidelines forbid that sort of voting behavior.
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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by grzm on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:39PM (#17930614)
There is no guideline on HN forbidding down voting for disagreement. 'dang as recently as a month ago reiterated this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666145

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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by meowface on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:49PM (#17930670)
Ah sorry, not sure where I got that idea from, then. I may've been confused by various subreddit mods establishing rules along the lines of "the downvote is not a disagree button".
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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by dang on Friday September 07, 2018 @05:18AM (#17932896)
Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574021
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