“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal combustion engines work

Re:“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal ... by dredmorbius on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:18PM (#11177865)

As for downvotes: best not to talk about them.

I'd had a comment downvoted and flagged recently, perhaps understanably, though the follow-on discussion made pretty clear that I'd identified a pretty salient point.

Upshot: HN is no less immune to voting what it wants to see over what's true or not. I may even be subject to that myself, though I prefer to see my votes as aiming for at the very least a deeper truth and validity.

I wasn't among your critics.

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Re:“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal ... by Grishnakh on Friday February 26, 2016 @11:58AM (#11182433)

>I downvoted you because your comment doesn't contribute anything useful to the discussion

Sorry to go off-topic, but how do you down-vote people? I've looked through the FAQs and everything and can't find anything about it. I only have the ability to up-vote.

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Re:“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal ... by dredmorbius on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:12PM (#11183343)

Once you accrue enough karma (~1,000 points IIRC, though that may vary) you'll get a downvote button.

It's conveniently placed close enough to the upvote button that on mobile, any moderation action is essentially a 50-50 probability of either....

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Re:“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal ... by Torkel on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:25PM (#11177921)

Thank you for this comment! I think your advice is correct: better not talk about it, and move on. Btw I am now in a weird situation - should I remove my edited comment or not. But I'll let it sit there, this thread makes no sense without it :)

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Re:“Super Engine” may fundamentally change the way internal ... by kbenson on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:00PM (#11179168)

I think it's always more honest to either append, or modify and summarize the changes if shortly after comment creation. If it's immediately after and it's just typo/grammar fixes sometimes I'll just modify without a note.

My thinking is that you can't have an honest discussion if people can't count on their replies applying to the parent after the fact, and if I've screwed up enough that I want something off the record, I really should have thought more before writing it, so leaving it and the sting of it's continual viewing is a good reminder for the future.

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