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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by ecuzzillo on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @01:16PM (#6949)
He could also use a comment, and then it wouldn't be quite as lame.
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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by brlewis on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @01:50PM (#6964)
You may already know this, but unlike reddit, comment scores here affect karma.
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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by dfranke on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @01:57PM (#6967)
One decent approach is to create two comments with instructions to vote one up and the other down, so you stay karma-neutral. So you need a total of 1+2n comments for a poll with n options. Like so:

Do you think this is a good idea?

(Vote this like you would an ordinary comment)

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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by dfranke on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @02:00PM (#6971)
Vote this up for no.
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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by dfranke on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @02:00PM (#6969)
Vote this up for yes.
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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by dfranke on Thursday March 29, 2007 @06:03PM (#7432)
Sigh. The sum of the scores on my four comments is now 6 and yesterday it was 3 (should always be 4). Apparently this is a bad idea.
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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by davidw on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @04:54PM (#7041)
Another approach is to let PG take care of it and get back to working on something that matters, whatever that may be;-)
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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by dfranke on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @02:00PM (#6973)
Vote this down for no.
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Re:Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my ... by dfranke on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @02:00PM (#6970)
Vote this down for yes.
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