> Most social sites have guidelines that downvotes are only supposed to be used for comments that break their guidelines. On HN and Reddit it seems many people ignore this and readily downvote opinions they disagree with or comments they simply don’t want to hear.
On HN they aren’t ignoring anything; the original HN guideline, set by pg himself, is that downvoting for disagreement is okay here. (I don’t necessarily agree with that guideline, but I didn’t start this site.)
On HN they aren’t ignoring anything; the original HN guideline, set by pg himself, is that downvoting for disagreement is okay here. (I don’t necessarily agree with that guideline, but I didn’t start this site.)