Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by greglindahl on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:11PM
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One of the best ways to get downvoted is to predict in advance why you'll be downvoted! In this case you appear to be setting up a narrative to claim downvoters are evidence of a particular ideological point, when instead they might be downvoting you because you're being a jerk.
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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by NoodleIncident on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:36PM
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You seem to have misread his comment. He predicted downvotes on the original submission, not his own comment.
He was wrong, but only because you have to click the link and read the full list to see the excerpt he quoted, when most people only read titles and comments.
Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by mises on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:30PM
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This really does bug me. The whole "if-you-downvote-me-you're-a-jerk" sorta makes me want to, even if the comment itself has some kind of decent reasoning. With that said, i can also be frustrating when people downvote to invisibility things that are not wrong but with which they disagree.