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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:16AM (#20992514)
Most of us don't have to do that because we aren't in the public eye. The worst you will get is a couple of downvotes.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by emiliobumachar on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @07:01AM (#20993614)
Well, there's always the risk of some twitter celebrity choosing your comment to draw attention to. There's been more than a few cases of regular people losing their jobs to mobs calling their employer.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by ukj on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:40AM (#20992613)
Yeah, I've been watching the vote-count on this post. It's quite... erratic to say the least. It re-bounded from the negatives.

Many angry down-voters bashing that [-] button only making my point.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by clhodapp on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:57AM (#20992723)
The [-] button is actually a handy thread-collapser. The downvote button is a mirror image of the upvote button and only shows if you have several hundred karma.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by baud147258 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:53AM (#20994391)
500 karmas for downvoting, at least it was then that the downvote button appeared for me a few months ago.
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