Ask HN: The most disliked HN posts/comments
Youtube released 2018 Rewind and it ended up being the most disliked video in Youtube's history. I often think it's a shame there is no most downvoted section like there are various top lists, best of, etc. on HN. Part of it may be that the most downvoted comment/post eventually gets flagged and dropped, but still seems like it's viable that there should be posts that got so many downvotes before they were taken down thus outranking the rest in number of downvotes. The benefit of such list is to realize what HN community is most against and what topics cannot be discussed. Should there be such a list?
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Sure, there is negativity in the form of criticism, but that's part of a healthy discussion, IMHO.
It's not perfect, but does it a lot better than other discussion forums where people discover that negativity can give them a higher profile.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9904732
I see you in there DanBC. :-)
You actually saved me from a severe beating.
There was some weirdness with the edit window time meaning I could no longer edit to remove the grumpiness, nor delete the post, but could still get downvotes.
This was dismissed as overly complex for arc, but I really would like to see the unfiltered graph of HN's social network to study the various voting rings and social subgroups.
- Copyleft is cancer
- Privacy is overrated
The topic is so much more nuanced than this but food for thought.
I can understand and agree with he downvotes if that was the bulk your stance. Although a more nuanced opinion would be great. Its good to understand why people feel this way.