> If we don't complain about it, nothing will change and the nonsense will continue.
It corrected itself, and the post is fine now. Complaining about down votes, however, should be discouraged.
> Hacker News used to be a great place for open discussion. Now, anything even slightly against the silicon valley hive-mind is downvoted.
I've been bearing that since I joined.
> Because the downvoting is only used as a tool to silence opposing viewpoints.
That's not true.
Coming into a thread still going on, you're just getting a snapshot. Yes, there will be up votes and down votes, but I find that generally things get corrected in the end.
However, contributing to the problem by complaining about down votes doesn't help matters. It makes them worse.
What's interesting is that the comment getting down voted now: "I get down-voted for stating a fact, welcome to hacker news.", is false in every way.
It corrected itself, and the post is fine now. Complaining about down votes, however, should be discouraged.
> Hacker News used to be a great place for open discussion. Now, anything even slightly against the silicon valley hive-mind is downvoted.
I've been bearing that since I joined.
> Because the downvoting is only used as a tool to silence opposing viewpoints.
That's not true.
Coming into a thread still going on, you're just getting a snapshot. Yes, there will be up votes and down votes, but I find that generally things get corrected in the end.
However, contributing to the problem by complaining about down votes doesn't help matters. It makes them worse.
What's interesting is that the comment getting down voted now: "I get down-voted for stating a fact, welcome to hacker news.", is false in every way.