Re:Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?
by tempguy9999 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:12PM
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And this excellent suggestion, which really works well if you're not an expert (= most of the time for most subjects for most people), has got downvoted. This is just the actions in HN which make me want to quit.
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Re:Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?
by Stratoscope on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:49PM
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Don't be too discouraged. You may note that SkyMarshal's comment is back in the black, no doubt partly due to your and my upvotes. (Or at least it was, now it's gray again! <sigh>)
It often happens that a comment gets some initial downvotes and then bounces back. In some cases, this can even be from fat-fingering on a mobile device. I've accidentally downvoted comments more than a few times, so I always try to remember to check whether the header line changes to "unvote" or "undown".