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Another theory: Your comments are filled with opinionated arrogance. That aren't backed up with any facts. Basically, the unwritten rules is the more opiniona

Another theory: Your comments are filled with opinionated arrogance. That aren't backed up with any facts. Basically, the unwritten rules is the more opinionated your comment(especially if it isn't in the norm) the more you need to back it up with facts or even links to sources. Also, I've gotten my share of down votes. But, usually it gets re-upvoted once enough people see it down voted. if it's not a "worthless comment" or extreme opinion without some kind of argument to back it up.

sharemywin 9y ago
Ask yourself this->Is my comment actually useful to other people? or just me spouting off my greatness... Most of my down-votes are from the later. or my dark sense of sarcasm, but that's a personal issue of mine.
- blackflame7000 9y ago
  For people who failed their first interviews, it gives them hope they can be a CTO in 5 years. Hows that for being helpful? Again, it seems like you are just projecting insecurities at me and what I have accomplished by calling me arrogant instead of successful.
  - detaro 9y ago
    And you could have transported that message without all the negative fluff and (probably, as I said, there is noise) without downvotes.
  - blackflame7000 9y ago
    My god how do you go outside with a sensitivity level that high?
    - DamonHD 9y ago
      Is there any need to go on being this rude? It simply does not help. I spent a LONG time working with "Big Swinging Dicks" (the wrong sort of BSD for HN maybe?) in finance in London (and New York and Tokyo), and the loudest rudest ones were not the ones best at their jobs. When even the IT guy can tell that you are about to do several megabucks of screwup, bad-mouthing other people is just digging the hole deeper, for example.
blackflame7000 9y ago
There are not many facts that can be used to back up an anecdotal story other than, you know, the facts of the anecdote. Furthermore, how arrogant can I be when I come out and admit right off the bat i failed two interviews?
- DamonHD 9y ago
  If you've only failed two interviews then you really are not trying hard enough. You are being thoroughly rude and arrogant and oblivious I suggest, and I'm going to stop responding to your posts because I am just getting angry. I suspect that I am not the only one here to feel that way. Stop waving your willy at me and others, and go back and read what you have written, carefully, as if it had been written TO you not BY you. If you did not intend to be a troll then I suggest you should revisit how you communicate.

sharemywin 9y ago

Ask yourself this->Is my comment actually useful to other people? or just me spouting off my greatness... Most of my down-votes are from the later. or my dark sense of sarcasm, but that's a personal issue of mine.

blackflame7000 9y ago
For people who failed their first interviews, it gives them hope they can be a CTO in 5 years. Hows that for being helpful? Again, it seems like you are just projecting insecurities at me and what I have accomplished by calling me arrogant instead of successful.
- detaro 9y ago
  And you could have transported that message without all the negative fluff and (probably, as I said, there is noise) without downvotes.
- blackflame7000 9y ago
  My god how do you go outside with a sensitivity level that high?
  - DamonHD 9y ago
    Is there any need to go on being this rude? It simply does not help. I spent a LONG time working with "Big Swinging Dicks" (the wrong sort of BSD for HN maybe?) in finance in London (and New York and Tokyo), and the loudest rudest ones were not the ones best at their jobs. When even the IT guy can tell that you are about to do several megabucks of screwup, bad-mouthing other people is just digging the hole deeper, for example.

blackflame7000 9y ago

There are not many facts that can be used to back up an anecdotal story other than, you know, the facts of the anecdote. Furthermore, how arrogant can I be when I come out and admit right off the bat i failed two interviews?

DamonHD 9y ago
If you've only failed two interviews then you really are not trying hard enough. You are being thoroughly rude and arrogant and oblivious I suggest, and I'm going to stop responding to your posts because I am just getting angry. I suspect that I am not the only one here to feel that way. Stop waving your willy at me and others, and go back and read what you have written, carefully, as if it had been written TO you not BY you. If you did not intend to be a troll then I suggest you should revisit how you communicate.