Comment by andai
3 days ago
I seem to recall a rule about "don't downvote something because you disagree with it", but I can't find anything like that.
Not sure if that's really solvable with rules, though.
My experience with downvotes is that people mostly use it as a "I don't like this" button, which is proxy for "I couldn't think of a counterargument so I don't want to look at it."
(I noted recently that downvotes and counterarguments appear to be mutually exclusive, which I found somewhat amusing.)
Whereas I will often upvote things I personally disagree with, if they are interesting or well reasoned. (This seems objectively better to me, of course, but maybe it's personality thing.)
Oh that one is a classic case of people 'remembering' a rule that never existed - there's a name for this illusion but I forget what it is.
See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for history...
> 'remembering' a rule that never existed
Probably the Mandela effect!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect
This was (maybe still is) part of "reddiquette." Like the guidelines and case law here, it often found its way into subreddit rules and comments from moderators.
To me it's just like how, growing up in Canada, we all assumed we had Miranda rights because we watched American TV.