Voting for forum posts

[Q. Schroll]

On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 14:59:44 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 April 2021 at 14:33:43 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 21:40:15 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
>> wrote:
>>> Online voting is emotionally toxic and logically fallacious.
>>
>> You're wrong, like really wrong. If that were true, 
>> [SO](https://stackoverflow.com) should be the pinnacle of 
>> emotionally toxic and logically fallacious posts when it comes 
>> to programming topics, but it's exactly the contrary: SO is 
>> one of the best if not *the* best resource for programming 
>> questions — and I'd claim it is because of their voting 
>> system and not in spite of it.
>
> Well I don't agree with this, SO voting system isn't that good 
> at all. It was already debatable on HN and in different medias 
> too.
>
> For example, it's common to see that in different cases the 
> most up voted answer is "not" the "best answer".

I don't think we disagree, you just got me wrong. People's votes 
aren't perfect, everyone knows that.
I experienced it myself that not the accepted/highest-score 
answer, but the answer with the second or third highest score was 
most helpful to me. I never said SO's voting system is the best 
voting system there is, I said that SO *has* a voting system and 
SO (not its voting system) is generally considered the best 
resource for programming questions, which is an indication that a 
voting system on a programming forum might not be as harmful as 
people here expect.

I have no idea what HN stands for.