``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.

>>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/.