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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by derefr on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:53PM (#20646806)
Indeed, that “hovering near zero” voting effect is just-as-often because the folks around here will downvote arguments they agree with, just because they don’t like seeing such things on HN. Which I find lovely, personally.
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by AimForTheBushes on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:09PM (#20646986)
Also, it's not like you can create an account and downvote. I think that is overlooked as well.
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by hollerith on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:53PM (#20648006)
>the folks around here will downvote arguments they agree with, just because they don’t like seeing such things on HN.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm curious how you came to know that. Do you have some way of seeing who downvoted what?

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by lallysingh on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:01PM (#20648073)
Sometimes people comment on things they downvote.
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by rusk on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:23AM (#20653634)
quite
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by ethbro on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:22PM (#20647119)
That's one of my core personal rules before I downvote or upvote -- am I doing this because the comment is objectively good / true / insightful (or the opposites), or because I simply agree with it.

I try and avoid the latter, to the extent humanly possible.

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