News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude streaming movies. Parent comment

Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by detaro on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:17AM (#19301379)
Down voting for disagreement is not banned by the rules (unlike on reddit) and described as acceptable by the site founder and moderators. (even if not all users agree on this)

What's explicitly banned is complaining about downvotes and saying HN is turning into reddit.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by pault on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:14AM (#19302312)
I was responding to marak830's claim that the guidelines say you should downvote comments you disagree with. You can look at the guidelines; it's not there. The rest is my opinion.

I believe that downvoting comments that you disagree with is a terrible policy since you end up with an echo chamber where anyone with a contrary opinion gets their comment moved to the bottom of the thread and grayed out. If someone says something you disagree with, the appropriate response is to engage them in a dialog and figure out why they believe what they do, not downvote them.

[ Parent | on HN ]