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fujinghg | 1 year ago

Ah I just get annoyed. You write up your genuine experience and it gets buried. That's not helpful to anyone. It's not helpful to the engineers on a project or the customers. But it validates someone's ego somewhere. It just seems so immature.

I'd rather there was no upvote or downvote at all.

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soperj|1 year ago

> I'd rather there was no upvote or downvote at all.

You've had an account for 11 days, I'm not sure you've had enough experience to form a proper opinion on this. I feel like the upvoting/downvoting system helps a lot.

fujinghg|1 year ago

I’ve been here a long long time. Around 2009. Occasionally I walk away for a few months.

I was there when it wasn’t possible to criticise MSFT because of the second coming of Satya. I was there when Google did no evil. Now look where we are.

bigstrat2003|1 year ago

Well, I've had an account for over a year. I think that the voting system is not generally very good, as it is subject to the same ills as all other such systems. Productive comments with unpopular views inevitably get buried, especially on threads which touch anything to do with politics.

card_zero|1 year ago

It gives me an indication of whether my comments please people or annoy them, and encourages me to keep the two in balance so that my karma stays level.

cwillu|1 year ago

You replied to someone's elation at an unexpected feature with snark based on a bitter experience, yes, you're going to get downvoted.