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I'm really curious why the downmod. Think I'm overreacting and it's good to use "fags" as slur with no context? Problem with my phrasing? Hate homosexuals? Thou
by curi 19y ago
I'm really curious why the downmod. Think I'm overreacting and it's good to use "fags" as slur with no context? Problem with my phrasing? Hate homosexuals? Thought "illiterate" wasn't precise enough a paraphrase? Annoyed with faint echoes of xkcd? I don't understand.
Edit: Can one of the downmodders write an explanation? Or is wanting to understand something bad here?
- kingnothing 19y agohttp://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- curi 19y agoI wasn't complaining about being downmodded. I don't care about my karma. I do care about why people downmod anti-homophobic comments, and want to understand their reasoning. (It got at least 2 downmods. If people hadn't upmodded it, that would be more clear. I would prefer if it was still -1 (or less) so that it'd more more obvious there is some explaining to do.).
- kingnothing 19y agoI don't know if you read that through or not, but... There was no reason to mention anything about "fags" in your original comment -- it added nothing to the discussion and only detracted from it.
- curi 19y agoI did read it. And there was a reason to mention that word: so people know what I'm referring to. But, you think people didn't like quoting that word? (and w/ the quotes not even written, but clearly there) umm that sort of makes sense. thanks.
- kingnothing 19y agoI was explaining why falsephrophet was downmodded. Up until right now, I was confused and thought your original question was asking why he was being downmodded, but apparently you were referring to your own first post in this thread. Oh well. :)