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Would you stop to consider that a trend of people downvoting each of your comments in a thread is more reflective of your behavior than theirs? You have the low
by blasdel 17y ago
Would you stop to consider that a trend of people downvoting each of your comments in a thread is more reflective of your behavior than theirs? You have the lowest batting average by far of anyone on the leaderboard: 0.48! Your comments are downmodded more than they're ignored!
I can remember having downvoted you in this manner several times in the last few months, and I wasn't alone in doing so at the time.
You troll this site pretty frequently, usually in deep threads where you make a bunch of comments expounding upon differently disturbing facets of the same churlish idea. The way you go about doing this is naive enough on the surface that it's believably undeliberate -- you're either completely unsocialized or an expert troll.
- amichail 17y agoThere's nothing wrong with you downvoting comments you disagree with. However, there are people who will downvote a comment and then downvote comments that have nothing to do with the one they disagree with.
- ErrantX 17y agoI would ask: do you have proof of this happening a lot? (or at all) it could be that lots of people just disagree with your comments... I know I've read occasional threads in the past and down voted pretty much all of your comments on their own merit.
- riffer 17y agoI think he's merely asking for access to data that might potentially either prove or disprove his hypothesis.
- pg 17y agoI think he actually means well. Sometimes his ideas are interesting.
- allenbrunson 17y agoI don't think that precludes him from having to follow the same social mores as everybody else, does it? He shows an amazing lack of empathy, and just about zero ability to comprehend what other people are saying. His comments on this very entry are further proof of that.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoI accidentally upvoted you, so now I have to comment (I hate that) I don't like publicly talking about people's behavior on HN. If you have to criticize, at least do somebody the decency of generalizing your comments first.
- ErrantX 17y agoI'd probably disagree there: dancing round a potential issue always frustrates me. One thing I like about HN is it is a little more direct in it's criticism. Though the OP is probably a little more stinging than is probably necessary. (If I'm ever being a douche please take this as open invitation to tell me :))
- allenbrunson 17y agoIt wasn't me that made this about Amichail, it was him.
- rms 17y agoThe same social mores as everybody else? Let's consider amichail a poignant test of groupthink.