Re:How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma
by brudgers on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:53PM
(#4866713)
I'm not saying punishment doesn't happen. But the relevant questions are:
How could your posts have been better written?
Was their content thoughtful enough to be worth
submitting in the first place (or not deleting
after having been posted)?
As I said, take the votes as editorial feedback, and karma as a reflection of the quality of the writing not the author.
Before posting the grandparent, I gave the links a cursory review. It was pretty clear that there was nothing outstandingly insightful about the comments. There was a bit of meanness, however. Their tone was a bit argumentative without being informative, as well.
All one can do is support their writing with effort and bounce back from mistakes and rejection as an author.
[Edit] I will add that comments do get systematically downvoted in a thread when someone disagrees. This morning, all my comments in this thread were downvoted by one, in a very short period of time. It is not unsurprising given what I compared and the entity I criticized. If I was certain I had never done the same thing, I might complain about it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864977 But I think I might have had a bad day, myself.
Before posting the grandparent, I gave the links a cursory review. It was pretty clear that there was nothing outstandingly insightful about the comments. There was a bit of meanness, however. Their tone was a bit argumentative without being informative, as well.
All one can do is support their writing with effort and bounce back from mistakes and rejection as an author.
[Edit] I will add that comments do get systematically downvoted in a thread when someone disagrees. This morning, all my comments in this thread were downvoted by one, in a very short period of time. It is not unsurprising given what I compared and the entity I criticized. If I was certain I had never done the same thing, I might complain about it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864977 But I think I might have had a bad day, myself.