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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by alach11 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:58PM (#27988116)
In many communities (HN, Reddit, etc.) downvotes are ostensibly not to be used for disagreement. Forcing users to supply a reason could introduce enough friction to encourage more thoughtful usage of the downvote.
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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by pvg on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:48PM (#27988845)
HN is not such a forum, downvotes to disagree are perfectly fine here.
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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by jjoonathan on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:01PM (#27988157)
Please kindly enter a constructive reason for your downvote:

"ur dumb and wrong .stay mad!"

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by romwell on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:09PM (#27989091)
"ostensibly" is an important qualifier.
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