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sendos
on Aug 17, 2012
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A Proposal To Improve Hacker News
What do people think of the idea of removing down votes and allowing only up votes? Has this been shown on other discussion boards to work?
MartinCron
on Aug 17, 2012
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My immediate reaction is to say that the downvotes serve a useful purpose. They can indicate social disapproval without adding noise or fanning flamewars.
The downside, of course, is that you see so many "WTF? Downvotes? Why" Comments.
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