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I normally reply with a comment where I state that I meant to upvote and accidentally downvoted. Psychology takes care of the rest - within minutes someone els
by mixmax 17y ago
I normally reply with a comment where I state that I meant to upvote and accidentally downvoted.
Psychology takes care of the rest - within minutes someone else will have upvoted the comment based on my comment. This mechanism could probably be used for malicious purposes if you cared enough about karma and not enough about basic decency.
- wwortiz 17y agoPlease don't reply saying you downvoted by mistake if you aren't already adding a comment to it, from what I've seen everything works out in the long run and accidental downvote comments just distract from the whole.
- bmm6o 17y agoI would prefer you don't. Meta is boring and usually unwelcome on HN (from what I've seen). I don't want to read a comment about how you voted or meant to vote.