Ok. FYI the site guidelines say nothing about downvotes. I had never heard the term 'downvote-baiting' before, and when I looked it up, the top result was you in some other thread on HN.
Since there were other ways users were taking threads off topic by complaining about voting, we decided to just make it shorter and ask not to do any of that.
Ok. FYI the site guidelines say nothing about downvotes. I had never heard the term 'downvote-baiting' before, and when I looked it up, the top result was you in some other thread on HN.
The guidelines might might specifically forbid talking about downvotes, but they do forbid talking about votes in general.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments.
As Buge pointed out, we generalized it. Older versions of the guidelines contained those rules more specifically—see the bottom of https://web.archive.org/web/20120321171757/http://ycombinato....
Since there were other ways users were taking threads off topic by complaining about voting, we decided to just make it shorter and ask not to do any of that.