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18 Post author: Wei_Dai 05 October 2012 07:23AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 October 2012 02:52:21PM 7 points [-]

If it's a seriously misguided but good-faith comment by a newbie, I might want to downvote it and explain why I did it. Hanlon's razor.

Comment author: Nighteyes5678 09 October 2012 01:05:25AM -1 points [-]

But, if it's a newbie and you knew that changing it from a -3 to a -4 would end the discussion, wouldn't you just not down vote it, and explain your problem or correction?

This new change seems to me to be a way for someone to end a conversation, though they had to have 3 other people help them get it there. Is that an intentional change we want to make?

Comment author: [deleted] 09 October 2012 07:38:23AM 2 points [-]

I was arguing against EY's argument mentioned by Viliam_Bur in favour of this change, which I'm opposed to. Of course, given that the change has been implemented, I won't downvote a post at -3 unless it's obvious spam or something.