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Re:Who Is Marrying Whom by prodigal_erik on Sunday January 30, 2011 @08:00PM (#2159779)
I urge you to reconsider being influenced by a minority who aren't using the voting feature with the spirit intended. Your contributions are very rarely net downvoted, and your average karma/comment is actually better than almost half of the http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders list.
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Re:Who Is Marrying Whom by lkrubner on Sunday January 30, 2011 @08:10PM (#2159810)
That is surprising and interesting to know. Thanks for that.
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Re:Who Is Marrying Whom by lkrubner on Monday January 31, 2011 @02:21PM (#2162781)
Ironic that your comment was downvoted. Some people are fairly harsh about downvoting stuff on Hacker News. I just upvoted you.
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Re:Who Is Marrying Whom by solipsist on Monday January 31, 2011 @08:53PM (#2164087)
I was responsible for downvoting that comment as I disagreed with the content. What bothered me was the following phrase:

  I urge you to reconsider being influenced by a minority who
  aren't using the voting feature with the spirit intended.
As this was clearly directed to people like me, I feel the need to justify my intentions. Saying that I am part of the minority and am using the voting feature incorrectly is a bold statement that is coming without justification or evidence. Both of you should go back and read the HN Guidelines again in order to be reminded of what determines if a comment is of good quality or bad quality. I use the voting featured based off the HN Guidelines, which I would say is the spirit intended. It's that simple.
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Re:Who Is Marrying Whom by prodigal_erik on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @03:13AM (#2164864)
You are correct. I'm sorry, for some reason I honestly thought our host (and the author of "How to Disagree") had taken a stand against such downvotes, but after doing my homework I'm somewhat dismayed to see he's fine with it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

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