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biot on July 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the...

That's one opinion and it's doesn't jibe with what the site creator has stated previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683

  "IIRC we first had this conversation about a month after launch.
   Downvotes have always been used to express disagreement. Or more
   precisely, a negative score has: users seem not to downvote
   something they disagree with if it already has a sufficiently
   negative score."

DanBC on July 18, 2015 [–]

He did also say this in a discussion about problematic downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057347

So his position did seem to be a bit more nuanced than "downvote what you like".

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