I’m starting to get a bit fed up with the down-voting behaviour here recently.
It used to be that on HN you down-voted for people who were obstructing conversation, being disingenuous or in some cases being excessively disrespectful.
Now having read 3 of your comments and seeing all 3 are heavily down-voted and yet the content of your messages is constructive and interesting.
If you disagree with something, fine, just don’t vote on it. Save the down-votes for bad actors, not someone with a different view.
The last thing HN needs is to become the kind of place where you’re actively encouraged to karma farm or whatever that term is for that behaviour on reddit.
I think they were downvoted because the first response was almost contentless and the other posts complain too much about the downvotes. Yes, there is some "good info" there but basically they are still presented in a relatively context-poor fashion and defensive, and willfully ignoring other points being made, and most active practitioners of elixir are aware of the context, so the comments are of questionable utility except for people who don't use the system, who may interpret it out of context and come to conclusions that are wrong. In short, they still have a shitposty feel.
Eh, I'd rather the thread discussed the language features in TFA. Once again, a potentially interesting comment section is sidetracked by yet another referendum on {{ niche_programming_language }}'s application to web development. Can't we just keep this to release posts?
It used to be that on HN you down-voted for people who were obstructing conversation, being disingenuous or in some cases being excessively disrespectful.
Now having read 3 of your comments and seeing all 3 are heavily down-voted and yet the content of your messages is constructive and interesting.
If you disagree with something, fine, just don’t vote on it. Save the down-votes for bad actors, not someone with a different view.
The last thing HN needs is to become the kind of place where you’re actively encouraged to karma farm or whatever that term is for that behaviour on reddit.