Ask HN: What kind of a downvoter are you?

Re:Ask HN: What kind of a downvoter are you? by sideway on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @09:27AM (#29566350)

If I could, I would downvote anything that does not increase the signal-to-noise ratio. In the last 1-2 years, there has been an upward trend in reddit-like comments like "Yes!", "That sucks", and smart-ass/low-quality oneliners that are supposed to be funny.

if only those comments could just disappear from HN.

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of a downvoter are you? by lgrialn on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:46AM (#29567554)

I know sometimes on Reddit I would reply to people with something very short when all they’d been getting were lots of downvotes, or even some upvotes, but I felt they needed some support through actual human communication instead of just the blank emptiness of votes, and yet I didn’t have anything detailed to say.

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