How Should We Treat Each Other Here?
adrianwaj: When you're mean to someone else successfully, you shift your pain to somebody else's on a psychic level.Downmodding is an easy way to be mean, especially when you overkill a bad comment or are over-zealous with it. But in doing so, it will never resolve one's own pain.He why I find HN a highly strung forum:- karma in general. As mentioned it can abused: over modding up and over modding down (yet this has been recently capped).- wanting to post a reply but not having the patience of inclination to read other people's replies first.- unfair distribution of karma. Too many times I've posted a 1 point comment only to have a responder receive around 10: it was because of me that their comment was possible and available.- not being encouraged to reply with apt and polite responses, even though in conversation such would be required, such as "you're right" or "thanks for telling me that" or "are you sure?" etc. Such responses could be easily modded down, hence modding has replaced discourse.