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

Re:Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you d... by Xichekolas on Friday July 24, 2009 @10:50AM (#721523)

What I would do personally:

  if score < 1
    option 1
  else
    option 3

But of course it's a judgment call. If it seems like the person is intentionally trolling, then by all means, go negative. If the person is just misinformed, zero is a sufficient slap on the wrist that hopefully says "make sure you know what you are talking about next time", and a reply makes it obvious why it got downvoted.

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Re:Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you d... by thorax on Friday July 24, 2009 @11:01AM (#721555)

For me, it's:

  if score < 2
    option 1
  else
    option 3

Note that I don't want to penalize them for being wrong-- we've all been there (and sometimes when we think they're wrong, really we are). It's better to let them lie and reply with better information or a ("Are you sure that's right? I recall blahblah.")

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