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Why am I being donwvoted for making a factual comment? This is clearly an abuse of the downvote system. Any mechanism in place to report this?

eropple 10y ago
I think you were downvoted because you misread the comment you were replying to, which generally isn't considered productive. It happens, it's not abuse of the system. (You were then downvoted for complaining about votes, because that is universally considered negative behavior.) You can always email hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like.
- jbmorgado 10y ago
  > you misread the comment you were replying to, No, I didn't misread anything, like the OP then cleared out in answering my original comment, it was him that mixed the dates.
  - eropple 10y ago
    Telling you what you wanted to know wasn't an invitation to argue with me. I am the OP to whom you refer. I didn't mix the dates; you misread the antecedent to which "release date" referred and, in an effort to treat your response in good faith, I issued a mea culpa I then edited out when I realized that I had had it straight in the first place.
    - jbmorgado 10y ago
      What did you had straight in the first place, the fact that your comment wasn't clear about if you where talking about Fallout 4 (like you said in the mea culpa that you now removed) or Skyrim Special Edition, or that you said it "came out 3 years ago"? Because neither Fallout 4, Skyrim original and Skyrim Special Edition "came out 3 years ago", and if you weren't going around editing your comments, my comment would be both factual and properly addressing your original comment.
      - eropple 10y ago
        The PS4 came out three years ago (almost exactly). Skyrim's recommended PC specs are somewhere below the PS4 in terms of performance. It's not an unclear sentence, and it isn't one that I edited. You were mistaken. Your fictional Internet points aren't important. You should stop.

eropple 10y ago

I think you were downvoted because you misread the comment you were replying to, which generally isn't considered productive. It happens, it's not abuse of the system. (You were then downvoted for complaining about votes, because that is universally considered negative behavior.) You can always email hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like.

jbmorgado 10y ago
> you misread the comment you were replying to, No, I didn't misread anything, like the OP then cleared out in answering my original comment, it was him that mixed the dates.
- eropple 10y ago
  Telling you what you wanted to know wasn't an invitation to argue with me. I am the OP to whom you refer. I didn't mix the dates; you misread the antecedent to which "release date" referred and, in an effort to treat your response in good faith, I issued a mea culpa I then edited out when I realized that I had had it straight in the first place.
  - jbmorgado 10y ago
    What did you had straight in the first place, the fact that your comment wasn't clear about if you where talking about Fallout 4 (like you said in the mea culpa that you now removed) or Skyrim Special Edition, or that you said it "came out 3 years ago"? Because neither Fallout 4, Skyrim original and Skyrim Special Edition "came out 3 years ago", and if you weren't going around editing your comments, my comment would be both factual and properly addressing your original comment.
    - eropple 10y ago
      The PS4 came out three years ago (almost exactly). Skyrim's recommended PC specs are somewhere below the PS4 in terms of performance. It's not an unclear sentence, and it isn't one that I edited. You were mistaken. Your fictional Internet points aren't important. You should stop.