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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by evo_9 on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:33PM (#15955208)
Be that as it may why should the poster be downvoted for this?

Whenever I fool myself into thinking HN is above petty ego bullshit this kind of thing reminds me how mistaken I am.

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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by dang on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:34PM (#15955231)
The comment was unsubstantive and arguably a bit snarky. Those are downvoteable qualities on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by Spooks on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:37PM (#15955259)
I think the downvotes are for the lack of contribution from his comment. It was unnecessary and not on topic.
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Re:Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned by dragonwriter on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:35PM (#15955241)
> Be that as it may why should the poster be downvoted for this?

Because the snide one-liner post wasn't a productive contribution to the discussion. And that would be true whether or not the blogger was prominent.

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