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Re:Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and ... by foobarbazoo on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:23PM (#2017115)
Anyone know why I'm not getting more downvotes? Lots of people have upvoted replies to my comment that disagree with me, and I'm assuming they also downvoted my comment.

Is the downvoting on some kind of logarithmic scale? I've lost something like 27 karma points, so clearly something is happening. Any ideas?

UDPATE: I suppose it could be that people can't read it anymore, and so the downvotes have stopped. Hard to say. My karma has started creeping back up though.

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Re:Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and ... by endtime on Friday December 17, 2010 @03:44PM (#2017700)
However many downvotes something gets, the lowest score that will be shown is -4. The goal of this is to mitigate bandwagon downvoting. I'm not sure it actually works, because when I see -4 I just assume it's something significantly lower, but there you go.
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Re:Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and ... by foobarbazoo on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:16PM (#2018424)
That explains a lot then. Thanks for the info.
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