I've been down-voting some comments because it seems like everyone is up-voting any old comment. It's ridiculous for someone's "I liked this article" type of comment to be up-voted.
I thought up-votes for something special, to be given out once in a while as a way of saying "your comment affected me in a deep way, thank you". If you give out up-vote willy-nilly then no one really cares about writing a thoughtful comment.
Here's an example of bad up-voting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213070
What the fuck's the point of the up-vote there? Does dangoldin really need to be up-voted 6 times to indicate that his comment was useful? Wouldn't 1 up-vote be enough?
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I've been down-voting some comments because it seems like everyone is up-voting any old comment. It's ridiculous for someone's "I liked this article" type of comment to be up-voted.
I thought up-votes for something special, to be given out once in a while as a way of saying "your comment affected me in a deep way, thank you". If you give out up-vote willy-nilly then no one really cares about writing a thoughtful comment.
Here's an example of bad up-voting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213070 What the fuck's the point of the up-vote there? Does dangoldin really need to be up-voted 6 times to indicate that his comment was useful? Wouldn't 1 up-vote be enough?
Anyway, I need a coffee and it's just a number.