I hereby resign

Re:I hereby resign by Confusion on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @01:58AM (#3791691)

I've taken to downvoting such comments. Not because I disagree with them or think they are wrong, but simply because they are offtopic and taking the place of a better ontopic comment. We really need an 'offtopic' flagging mechanism.

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Re:I hereby resign by saraid216 on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @02:12AM (#3791725)

1) I'd argue that downvoting is an appropriate course of action for this. As I understand it, the purpose of downvoting is to discourage the type of comment or submission being downvoted. 2) A little Javascriptiness to collapse trees of comments would do wonders to make it ignorable, too.

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Re:I hereby resign by drostie on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @08:24AM (#3792601)

Not to spam, but I took your suggestion and implemented it at: https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130027

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Re:I hereby resign by jsprinkles on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @02:15AM (#3791735)

Unfortunately, downvoting is going to do absolutely nothing because there are a plethora of people upvoting it.

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Re:I hereby resign by beedogs on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @06:16AM (#3792284)

It must suck to be forced to read and respond multiple times to it, too.

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