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I wouldn't know about any absolute rule. Including "thou shalt not eat babies", if the circumstances are extreme enough. I understand why complaining about dow

I wouldn't know about any absolute rule. Including "thou shalt not eat babies", if the circumstances are extreme enough. I understand why complaining about downvotes is looked down upon (off topic, distracting, feed the troll…), but there are cases where those are both unexpected and unwarranted. I mean, I originally replied to a comment that didn't add to the discussion with a comment that did. What was I supposed to do with it? What am I supposed to learn from it? Not even you provided any meaningful feedback.

pvg 8y ago
What am I supposed to learn from it? That not everything is about you is a decent start.
- dang 8y ago
  Please don't get personally nasty.
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dang 8y ago
My guess is that it got downvoted because it started on a snarky footing ("Seriously, who cares"), and then made a nitpicky point that isn't very interesting, and moreover is at odds with how mathematics actually works. (If it were right, we'd name theorems after the first person to correct the last error, but we don't.) So, kind of a shallow dismissal, which is the sort of thing we hope people won't post here. I realize you didn't mean it that way. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html p.s. Could you please not take HN threads into off-topic meta-hell in the future? There's a reason the site guidelines ask people not to do that.
- loup-vaillant 8y ago
  Honestly, the snarky comment was because I was exasperated by gizmo686's nitpick. He made a point that isn't very interesting, and moreover didn't contradict what I said, though it was phrased in a way that looked like it did. I hate that kind of manipulation, and it got to me. > and moreover is at odds with how mathematics actually works Ah now there's something interesting. How exactly was it at odds with maths? I never said anything about how a theorem was true, or provable. Just proven. If you could tell me how that was at odds with how maths works, I'd most probably learn something.

pvg 8y ago

What am I supposed to learn from it? That not everything is about you is a decent start.

dang 8y ago
Please don't get personally nasty.

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dang 8y ago

My guess is that it got downvoted because it started on a snarky footing ("Seriously, who cares"), and then made a nitpicky point that isn't very interesting, and moreover is at odds with how mathematics actually works. (If it were right, we'd name theorems after the first person to correct the last error, but we don't.) So, kind of a shallow dismissal, which is the sort of thing we hope people won't post here. I realize you didn't mean it that way. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html p.s. Could you please not take HN threads into off-topic meta-hell in the future? There's a reason the site guidelines ask people not to do that.

loup-vaillant 8y ago
Honestly, the snarky comment was because I was exasperated by gizmo686's nitpick. He made a point that isn't very interesting, and moreover didn't contradict what I said, though it was phrased in a way that looked like it did. I hate that kind of manipulation, and it got to me. > and moreover is at odds with how mathematics actually works Ah now there's something interesting. How exactly was it at odds with maths? I never said anything about how a theorem was true, or provable. Just proven. If you could tell me how that was at odds with how maths works, I'd most probably learn something.