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Re:Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla by jasonlotito on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:56PM (#8097951)
To be clear, I was referring to the complaint about down votes, not the comment itself. Complaining about down votes is expressly called out as something that should not be done.
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Re:Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla by nawitus on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:53PM (#8098302)
Some social media sites with karma scores actually encourage one to ask why a post/comment is being downvoted. I guess they're in the minority, though. I don't know the consensus on Hacker News.
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Re:Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla by mbrubeck on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:59PM (#8098337)
The HN guidelines say to "resist complaining" about downvotes. (I guess it's open to interpretation whether "asking about downvotes" falls under the same reasoning.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla by dang on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:04PM (#8098366)
All that is off topic. I think we should maybe change the guideline to say: "Please don't comment about being downvoted. It does no good and makes for boring reading."
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Re:Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla by TallGuyShort on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:03PM (#8097991)
Oh - I see. No that makes sense.
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