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Downvote to disagree is a very bad system, though it's not explicitly discouraged in HN. That just seems bonkers to me.

Its actually the norm here, an expected behavior according to the originators of HN, so of course not discouraged at all.

It takes some getting used to. But as long as you're not rude or profane, the numbers eventually take care of themselves.

Ooo, this inspires a good idea: a multi-dimensional voting based forum. You can up and downvote based on things like veracity, tact, agree/disagree with position, etc.

I think that's slashdot.

Checking slashdot, they appear to have filters in their comments for things like 'insightful' and 'imformative'. Thinking more along the lines of being able to rate things like the veracity and tact of the response, with automatic filtering and prevalence based on a few metrics.

I think it's a good start, but of course, everything lies in the details of the implementation.

I've been considering how to do something like this for awhile. Almost ready to start up work on the prototype :)

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