Re:Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden
by jacobmoe on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:26PM
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Oh, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
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Re:Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden
by theoh on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:29PM
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Anonymous downvoting is the violence of HN (and it's probably a lot more antisocial than we admit). Politely pointing out errors is... well, it's something else. Probably at least OK. Sorry I don't have a Monty Python line for this comment.
Re:Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden
by kwhitefoot on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:55AM
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> probably a lot more antisocial than we admit).
More like definitely. What function does downvoting really perform anyway? And what function is it supposed to perform? I see lots of perfectly reasonable comments going grey with no explanation at all.
Re:Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden
by anon49124 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:33PM
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Yes, sigh. Cyberdisinhibitionism: accountability and boundaries are reduced, lack of impact seen for committing such repressive acts leads to it.
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