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Re:Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even... by lazyjones on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:51AM (#23639551)
In the forum I was working on, downvotes were limited per 24h, so people eventually saved them for really bad / offensive / spam comments instead of punishing people for their opinions (except a few who even wrote scripts to downvote certain people systematically...).

The problem is in my opinion that once people begin to act like this, their victims behave like this also. If you get punished for arguing against somebody, you learn to stop arguing and just downvote that person instead. It's a chain reaction.

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Re:Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even... by ratww on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:15AM (#23639736)
> In the forum I was working on, downvotes were limited per 24h

I believe this is also true for Hacker News.

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Re:Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even... by jessaustin on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:26AM (#23639852)
If so, it must be a sort of "hell" downvote, which has no effect even though the UI seems to indicate that it does... I don't think this would change behavior as described above.
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