Ask HN: Thoughts on HN's “whining about down votes” policy
Regardless of your rebuttle, questioning why a comment is being down voted is apparently breaking HN policy. Moderator @dang made me aware of this recently.
"Breaking policy"??? Really? Everyone who questions a downvote is breaking policy? This either is the most stupidest "unquestionable" policy or the holier than thou attitude on HN has gotten out of hand.
Do we really believe here that every knows what the purpose of a downvote button is or we just pretend to be better than Reddit?
A lot of people here just downvote because they come from a different school of thought from the opinion or do not agree with the comment. But is that the purpose of the downvote button? I hope not. I thought it was to penalize irrelevant contributors not punish alternate but relevant opinions.
And what happens when you question the premise of down votes? The mods tell you you are the one breaking policy. Perhaps the mods ought to look more into what is being downvoted rather than just shoving canned responses to those who stand their ground.
It is sad that right or wrong has been reduced to majority rule on a supposedly accommodating platform like HN.
To the mods, you really need to do better moderating and maintaining the principle behind expression on this platform, otherwise why are you here?