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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by randcraw on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:05PM (#20860794)
An alternative form of downvote is to reply with a negative comment. This makes a lot of sense since upvotes imply that you agree with all or most of the post while a downvote reveals nothing about what part of the post you dislike or why.
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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by microcolonel on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:28PM (#20860953)
I've now for a couple years suggested that tweak to Hacker News, with the modification that either a refutation or an upvote on a refutation would qualify you to downvote.
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