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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by baud147258 on Monday September 02, 2019 @12:25PM (#20860069)
In case of post on meta, the downvotes means "I disagree with this proposal", not that the question isn't good.
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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by notatoad on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:34PM (#20860605)
Which is kind of a perfect example of how downvotes are a bad interface - what they mean is context-sensitive, and needs to be explained. If meta had an explicit "disagree" flag, instead of an obtuse "downvote" that users have to intuit the meaning of, it wouldn't have to be explained in a HN comment.
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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by Avamander on Monday September 02, 2019 @12:37PM (#20860170)
Disagreement doesn't mean they're right about the proposal though.
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