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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by r00fus on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:48PM (#26815340)
How do you promote signal over noise without being able to attenuate (downvote) the noise? Trying to outshout the noise results in FB style cacophony.
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Re:The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wron... by simias on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:43AM (#26818274)
The main problem with FB IMO is the community, not the moderation tools. I highly doubt that adding downvotes to FB would vastly improve the average quality of the contributions, actually it may well make it worse.
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