Comment by cindylmcindy
Comment by cindylmcindy 2 days ago
I wasn't asking out of anger like others would.
I like negative feedback.
I'm surprised you wrote all this. You, too, should like negative feedback. How else are you going to get gritty and competitive?
Fair enough. And, certainly, my growth would have been impeded had I never heard any negative feedback.
To be clear, some of my commentary was in response to a sibling comment of yours where you seemed to take the downvotes personally. I can't speak for all the cases, obviously, but my observation of HN is that the downvotes are usually a signal of "this comment doesn't apply to the topic or follow-up debate" and less so a signal of "bad idea" or "bad author.". Disagreement with an idea usually results in a thoughtful comment response, not a downvote.
I think the karma threshold for downvoting rights is useful here in that it gives everyone enough exposure to the guidelines before taking action on their own personal ranking objectives (and the HN guidelines are worth reading if you haven't yet -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). My best guess is that your downvoters considered your comment a dismissal of TFA, without any explanation for your flippancy.
I may have read to the bottom of too many HN posts but,, fortunately, no one is keeping score and they really don't get that long or too toxic. (thanks largely to the efforts of dang and the rest of the mods, I'm sure)