Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you disagree with.

Re:Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you d... by edw519 on Friday July 24, 2009 @10:48AM (#721514)

"...eloquently makes a claim based on the perceived fact that the world is flat."

You should do what feels right to you.

What would I do? Probably click reply and challenge my fellow hackers with something like, "Who you gonna listen to, Galileo or Thomas Friedman?"

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Re:Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you d... by bendotc on Friday July 24, 2009 @11:03AM (#721566)

I agree that one should do what feels right.

FWIW, I was trying to posit a situation in which you don't have time to respond. I was using flat earth as a stand-in for a wrong statement, and oftentimes, it takes more than name-dropping Galileo to demonstrate that the writer is factually incorrect. I agree that if you have time, demonstrating the truth is the best option.

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