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-1 really? This isn't the greatest comment in the world but negative? HN and any financial/economic topics don't mix well at all. Edit: Do people really consid

-1 really? This isn't the greatest comment in the world but negative? HN and any financial/economic topics don't mix well at all. Edit: Do people really consider this comment worse than almost every other top-level comment? It currently stands second to last, the last being bitcoin spam. Maybe my view of comment quality is off? (This edit is taking the suggestion from the response below.)

carapace 9y ago
Broadly speaking, mentioning downvotes is frowned on here and will get you more downvotes. The exception (as far as I have seen) is asking people to explain their downvotes, e.g. "Downvotes, please explain?" Sometimes that will get you good feedback.
- jnordwick 9y ago
  Don't care about more downvotes, my average comment score isn't the greatest (I've never even cracked 1900 karma in many many comments over the years). What does interest me is individual comments. It appears to my curiosity about ranking things (like ELO and such in games and sports).
mancerayder 9y ago
Some people downvote because they simply didn't like / disagree with an opinion. In my opinion, a bad reason to downvote. Others downvote (like myself, but not in your case) because something doesn't contribute well, harms, or is noise in the conversation. It happens all the time that the former group will do their thing. That's to be expected, really, on an pseudo-anonymous public forum. People sometimes feel like they're voting on opinions and positions within a debate.
nkurz 9y ago
This isn't the greatest comment in the world but negative? It's a fine comment. Might be right, might be wrong, but a fine on-topic comment. The only show correlation under an overly simplified model I hope you can appreciate the irony of trying to draw any conclusions from what might have been a single erroneous downvote. At -5 and [flagged], there might be cause for concern. If it happens always, then definitely ask questions. But a single -1 doesn't give much information about group sentiment. Consider that you might be reading too closely into path-dependent noise. In general, almost no one votes, and it's hard to figure out what they are thinking when they do. Possibly someone was bothered by the tiny typo in the first sentence ("The only show"), or perhaps they meant to upvote on a mobile screen and missed. This put the comment at the bottom, and after that it few people read it, and no one else voted. If you are interested, you could ask 'dang' what the actual voting pattern was and he'd probably tell you. So certainly you should wonder after a while if something is wrong with your commenting style if all your comments end up negative, but I wouldn't assume that yet. I'm commenting here in part because I remembered your username from this pleasant exchange you had with BeeOnRope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305216. Please keep commenting.

carapace 9y ago

Broadly speaking, mentioning downvotes is frowned on here and will get you more downvotes. The exception (as far as I have seen) is asking people to explain their downvotes, e.g. "Downvotes, please explain?" Sometimes that will get you good feedback.

jnordwick 9y ago
Don't care about more downvotes, my average comment score isn't the greatest (I've never even cracked 1900 karma in many many comments over the years). What does interest me is individual comments. It appears to my curiosity about ranking things (like ELO and such in games and sports).

mancerayder 9y ago

Some people downvote because they simply didn't like / disagree with an opinion. In my opinion, a bad reason to downvote. Others downvote (like myself, but not in your case) because something doesn't contribute well, harms, or is noise in the conversation. It happens all the time that the former group will do their thing. That's to be expected, really, on an pseudo-anonymous public forum. People sometimes feel like they're voting on opinions and positions within a debate.

nkurz 9y ago

This isn't the greatest comment in the world but negative? It's a fine comment. Might be right, might be wrong, but a fine on-topic comment. The only show correlation under an overly simplified model I hope you can appreciate the irony of trying to draw any conclusions from what might have been a single erroneous downvote. At -5 and [flagged], there might be cause for concern. If it happens always, then definitely ask questions. But a single -1 doesn't give much information about group sentiment. Consider that you might be reading too closely into path-dependent noise. In general, almost no one votes, and it's hard to figure out what they are thinking when they do. Possibly someone was bothered by the tiny typo in the first sentence ("The only show"), or perhaps they meant to upvote on a mobile screen and missed. This put the comment at the bottom, and after that it few people read it, and no one else voted. If you are interested, you could ask 'dang' what the actual voting pattern was and he'd probably tell you. So certainly you should wonder after a while if something is wrong with your commenting style if all your comments end up negative, but I wouldn't assume that yet. I'm commenting here in part because I remembered your username from this pleasant exchange you had with BeeOnRope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305216. Please keep commenting.