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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by FalconSensei on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @07:45PM (#26814538)
> Peers express disapproval and disagreement by commenting within the post. As I am doing precisely right now. ;)

Exactly. And this is actually something that I like about Twitter, and hate about Reddit. Don't like what I post? Reply and say it.

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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by dheera on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:26PM (#26815551)
A lot of HN doesn't do that, they just downvote.

I think it would make a lot of sense to require a response before you can downvote.

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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by KMag on Thursday April 15, 2021 @01:24AM (#26816434)
I fear required responses would be similar to checked exceptions. They're great in theory, but in practice, without a lot of discipline and actively maintained culture of quality, they both tend to devolve into low-quality boilerplate.
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