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Re:The connection between gender, gentrification, and househ... by dang on Sunday March 31, 2019 @02:58AM (#19534285)
Please don't break the site guidelines, which ask you not to go on about downvoting. Especially please don't do downvote-baiting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The connection between gender, gentrification, and househ... by Fricken on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:24AM (#19534341)
Ok. FYI the site guidelines say nothing about downvotes. I had never heard the term 'downvote-baiting' before, and when I looked it up, the top result was you in some other thread on HN.
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Re:The connection between gender, gentrification, and househ... by Buge on Sunday March 31, 2019 @04:00AM (#19534434)
The guidelines might might specifically forbid talking about downvotes, but they do forbid talking about votes in general.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments.

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Re:The connection between gender, gentrification, and househ... by dang on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:23PM (#19537713)
As Buge pointed out, we generalized it. Older versions of the guidelines contained those rules more specifically—see the bottom of https://web.archive.org/web/20120321171757/http://ycombinato....

Since there were other ways users were taking threads off topic by complaining about voting, we decided to just make it shorter and ask not to do any of that.

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