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Re:The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid by Natsu on Sunday April 06, 2014 @05:16PM (#7543005)
Just for the record, you can't downvote replies to your own posts.
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Re:The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid by anonbanker on Sunday April 06, 2014 @05:58PM (#7543236)
Ah. so you would need a sockpuppet account for such a thing.

I retract the original question about downvotes.

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Re:The Hypocrisy Of Sam Yagan and OkCupid by Natsu on Sunday April 06, 2014 @08:19PM (#7543912)
There's also a karma threashhold for downvoting. You actually need a sockpuppet account with a decent chunk of karma and there are voting ring detectors to put a stop to most shenanigans.
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