wow, just jumped into google mail and found a personal reply from Alexis to an email i sent in 2006 about (now called?) downvoting ring behaviour. @#$@#$ i'm s

wow, just jumped into google mail and found a personal reply from Alexis to an email i sent in 2006 about (now called?) downvoting ring behaviour. @#$@#$ i'm so old now. came to HN after being early user of Reddit. not a programmer, ex-scientist and to echo some of the other comments, I mentally delete 90% of the programming articles (i prefer mathematica although that is not a popular choice here) but even at 10% or less, i always find something of interest. i guess i'm a classic hacker definition kinda guy.