Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6
by sanderjd on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @11:49AM
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I can't remember the last time I saw a reasonable comment more than a half hour or so old greyed out. But I often see highly-voted comment with an old greyed-out reply saying "why is this being downvoted". All that's happening is that the sample size of votes is too small early on to be meaningful.
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> But I often see highly-voted comment with an old greyed-out reply saying "why is this being downvoted".
Many times it's because the user was just asking a question, or made what they thought was a perfectly reasonable comment.
HN is pretty horrible with voting etiquette.
Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6
by reitanqild on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:00PM
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But I still often wonder about the motivation for those early downvoters.
And I'll still hold that this is acceptable curiosity.
I agree with that. I too was curious about why someone downvoted a comment I made the other day. I can honestly say I don't worry about losing a point over that since I've not looked into how points work much but I thought it was odd that someone would do that without explaining what motivated them.