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Re:The Death Of Expertise by mudil on Saturday January 18, 2014 @03:23PM (#7082116)
"if you were a touch less condescending and arrogant, and refrained from making baseless judgments, you would get more up-votes."

That's exactly why you are wrong. In your world, upvotes are based on niceties and political correctness, but in my world that should be based on experience and expertise.

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Re:The Death Of Expertise by kazagistar on Saturday January 18, 2014 @03:31PM (#7082141)
In your posts, you demonstrated neither category of qualities, and thus deserve to be down-voted in either "world". (The real world is in between anyways, and it is the only world that counts.) The only expertise you demonstrate is in being a prick.
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Re:The Death Of Expertise by untilHellbanned on Sunday January 19, 2014 @12:32AM (#7083484)
"..demonstrate is in being a prick.." i'm willing to bet your downvote of @mudil was due to this emotion rather than @mudil failing to demonstrate his expertise on HN culture
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Re:The Death Of Expertise by 6d0debc071 on Saturday January 18, 2014 @03:47PM (#7082186)
If you intend to honestly leverage expertise and experience

And:

If you believe that anger and defensiveness harm rational thinking.

And:

That being rude is liable to make people angry and defensive.

Then - regardless of what world you'd rather live in - being condescending and arrogant seems liable to be ill aligned with your aims.

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Re:The Death Of Expertise by summerdown2 on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:32AM (#7089370)
In my world, upvotes would be based on truth (correct relation to reality) and insight (ability to uncover new truths or present old truths in a new light).

Neither niceties/political correctness or experience/expertise should be reasons for an upvote unless the answer is correct or insightful.

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