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All you can assume from that is a couple of people who saw your comment decided to click downvote. Extrapolating from those few people to the whole of the HN co
by ChrisSD 8y ago
All you can assume from that is a couple of people who saw your comment decided to click downvote. Extrapolating from those few people to the whole of the HN community is a bit of a stretch.
- damnyou 8y agoMy retry is sitting at -2 right now.
- sctb 8y agoWhat's happening is hole-digging. Votes are noisy, especially at small values. When we take that to mean something and then accuse the community, they downvote because it's nonsense. This is one reason why complaining about voting is explicitly against the guidelines—it just makes everything sadder and worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html