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Re:New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity by pavlov on Friday April 03, 2015 @06:16PM (#9318926)
I would like downvoting to require an explanation. It could be a single-line text box with the label "Explain why".

If you're serious about downvoting, it's no trouble to type in a short explanation such as "incorrect", "not funny", "obvious troll", "unnecessarily rude". (Those seem to be some typical reasons for downvotes.)

And if you're not quite sure why you're downvoting, having to explain would certainly serve as a determent.

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Re:New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity by dragonwriter on Friday April 03, 2015 @06:48PM (#9319045)
I don't see an existing problem that this would in any way make better.
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Re:New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity by pain on Friday April 03, 2015 @10:47PM (#9319716)
Commit logs ask questions without hurting anybody.

If there was ever a psyhotechnological empathic determination of medico-lego "Do No Harm" principles, commit logs are the definition of info emo sec.

Bitcoin/factum public transaction messaging (uncomplete) is also equal to power for votes of parts of speech are important news triggers.

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