``sage is a downvote''

For those few of you not conversant with 4chan, the dis subdomain is text only, like the original 2ch. The textboards tend to be disdainful of the imageboards, and incidentally, they get much less traffic, since it's impossible to post porn on them.

The mailto:sage links in some of the posts are essentially public downvotes; from the Japanese "下げ", meaning "down", and pronounced "sah ge".

- sbierwagen, Hacker News <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657942>;

sage: it's a downvote.

Sage.

>>3
Back to reddit.

>>1 is so new it hurts.

public downvote

The japanese word '上げる' meaning 'to elevate' refers to the raising of the thread to the top of the thread list. When a post is posted the normal way, the thread is "raised up" to the top of the thread list.

The mailto:sage links in some of the posts are essentially public displays of politeness; from the Japanese "下げ", meaning "down", and pronounced "sah ge". Keeping the thread down instead of raising it up contributes a post without changing the thread order. This allows posters to contribute needless or off-topic posts without disturbing the thread order.

>>7
If you really wanted to be polite, you would sage your off-topic bullshit, you'd refrain from posting it and go back to /jp/.

>>8
When a necro bumper eventually raises this thread in the future, I will have a post on record about the meaning of sage and age.

You must bump sometimes or nobody will read you.

Sage is lack of upvote, not a downvote, ``faggot''.

>>1
>it's impossible to post porn on them.
http://i.imgur.com/UZv4g.jpg

Sage is a vile weed.

>>13
That extends the lives of disks and drives.

>>8
I don't understand why people tell polite sagers to fuck off back to /jp/, when /prog/ has been doing the same thing for years and you're actually doing it right now.

That extends the lives of dicks and kikes

>>15
Shitposting is never polite, sage or no sage. Back to /jp/.

>>15
It's not so much that people do it, it's the ``lol sage is polite fag!!!'' attitude they take.