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What'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
by sctb 8y ago
What'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