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> - Down votes are to indicate that either I disagree with a comment, OR that the comment is abusive, argumentative, etc, but there is no...

> - Down votes are to indicate that either I disagree with a comment, OR that the comment is abusive, argumentative, etc, but there is no way to specify which of those... Yes. (You list misses "the tiny buttons are so close that people sometimes accidentally downvote") There are different people on HN and they use the downvote to differently from each other to communicate different information. I'm not sure why that concept is confusing? It's sometimes confusing if a post is downvoted. Don't pay too much attention to a single downvote if you can't work out why it happened. If you get two or three downvotes you might want to look at your post to see if there's a problem with tone or content.

Posted by DanBC on Apr 21, 2015, 11:45 AM

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> - Down votes are to indicate that either I disagree with a comment, OR that the comment is abusive, argumentative, etc, but there is no...

DanBCApr 21, 2015, 11:45 AM

> - Down votes are to indicate that either I disagree with a comment, OR that the comment is abusive, argumentative, etc, but there is no way to specify which of those... Yes. (You list misses "the tiny buttons are so close that people sometimes accidentally downvote") There are different people on HN and they use the downvote to differently from each other to communicate different information. I'm not sure why that concept is confusing? It's sometimes confusing if a post is downvoted. Don't pay too much attention to a single downvote if you can't work out why it happened. If you get two or three downvotes you might want to look at your post to see if there's a problem with tone or content.

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