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Ouch - I was downvoted when i felt like I made some reasonable arguments without attacking anyone. Why was I downvoted?
by Blackstone4 8y ago
Ouch - I was downvoted when i felt like I made some reasonable arguments without attacking anyone. Why was I downvoted?
- Sjenk 8y agoI guess since you posted a comment twice. Not that familiair with HN unspoken rules. But I guess HN just like other forums don't appreciate double posts
- nathanaldensr 8y agoYou're challenging the conventional wisdom about how valuable Bitcoin is. The way I see it, cryptocurrency gets a lot of its "value" from emotion--it signifies what people want to be true. Cryptocurrency is, in some ways, a dream incarnate. It's backed by nothing except the dreams of those who believe in it--and energy expenditure (if one believes that). It's like a religion: Challenge the faith and you will be burned as a heretic, so-to-speak. I think that has a lot to do with why rational comments are down-voted so much on HN. You're assuming the discourse is rational when it is actually quite emotional. Cognitive dissonance abounds.
- marketgod 8y agoRemember that most of the people down voting think that the stock market trades on actual financial multipliers like 10x earnings or whatever. Let them miss out on the ride, make your money. You can't convince crazy you just have to let them miss out on the ride.