Poll: What are the up and down arrows for?
There still seems to be some disagreement over what the arrows are supposed to be used for, and the FAQ is silent.
The topic came up (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760056) in yesterday's Red Hat article. reitzensteinm submitted the topic as an AskHN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760275), but it didn't gain much traction. I thought a poll might be more illuminating.
Maybe the FAQ is a purposely ambiguous, but I think it would be helpful if the community came to a consensus.
So, which description is closest to what you think the arrows should be used for?
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I strongly disagree with him. I tend to think "More/less of this content on HN" is more appropriate than "This is constructive/non-constructive" because the latter seems to support the up-voting of all constructive but off-topic comments. In my opinion, sprawling off-topic discussions of well-trodden issues is a problem for many articles.
>Why don't I see down arrows?
>There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.