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Re:Ask HN: Do you upvote direct replies? by ALittleLight on Sunday June 19, 2022 @07:35PM (#31804593)
You should only have rules that can be enforced. Having rules that people are free to break is an unnecessary corruption of the system - users and moderators know that the actual rules aren't what is written but what is enforced. People will downvote based on disagreement and there is no way to detect or punish that so why have a rule against it?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you upvote direct replies? by rglullis on Sunday June 19, 2022 @07:47PM (#31804675)
Guidelines != rules.

My point is not to have strict control, merely to get the mods to acknowledge the change in behavior from the community and review their recommendations.

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