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No matter how much you didn't deserve downmodding, complaining about them only invites more. You have a better chance of recovery by not bringing them up, and t
by kick 7y ago
No matter how much you didn't deserve downmodding, complaining about them only invites more. You have a better chance of recovery by not bringing them up, and the News Guidelines ask that you don't.
Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rat9988 7y agoYour paragraph was a lot more annoying than his sentence.
- dang 7y agoIt's true that such comments are annoying, but they're necessary as a feedback mechanism to regulate the site. Otherwise the site guidelines would have negligible effect. They're more tedious to write than to read, if that helps at all. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20tedious%20write%20read&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- Der_Einzige 7y agoI just gave him an upvote because that rule is stupid and should be changed. No, you SHOULD call people out for this BS