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Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://n
by stephengillie 11y ago
Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tlarimer 11y agoEven when it is paired with a question asking for clarification on the subject matter at hand?
- dang 11y agoYes, because you can always delete the downvote noise and keep the clarifying question.
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- dang 11y agoExcept it was decisively upvoted, not downvoted, in the end. It's pointless to ask why there was a bit of downage in the vote stream. Maybe someone misclicked. Maybe someone was mistaken. Most of these cases sort themselves out rather quickly; meanwhile a comment about it sticks around inaccurately forever.