The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)
(2009), by Jeff Atwood. I would have been <i>very</i> surprised to hear today&#x27;s Stack Overflow staff talking about the value of downvoting.<p>Atwood&#x27;s experience with downvoting on Hacker News is definitely a bit dated as well:<p>&gt; (update: Apparently it is possible to downvote comments, which I never realized. It is buried in the faq)<p>&gt; (I apologize for my misunderstanding, but there’s no visible UI for downvoting, and I can’t recall ever seeing a single negative voted comment in all the times I’ve visited Hacker News! Also, I put these comments in parens to make them extra-LISPy so Paul Graham would see my corrections.)