Comment by gruseom
12 years ago
> I see it a lot
If so, you should be able to find three examples. Can I please see them? Specifically, three comments that aren't in any way rude, downvoted for expressing an unpopular view?
The reason I'm curious is that I try to watch out for that, yet have only seen one comment recently which seemed to me downvoted purely for expressing an unpopular opinion, and even it was somewhat borderline.
> You're training people not to say something others disagree with.
That's not true if most such comments get more upvotes than downvotes.
I'm not going to go through my whole freaking history to highlight the 5 times I've specifically marked where a downvote to disagree has happened on otherwise civil text.
here:
this was 15 days ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7381397
> That's not true if most such comments get more upvotes than downvotes.
so it's not true were training people to keep unpopular opinions to themselves, because if those opinions will also be upvoted... because why? Because people don't agree with them? What?