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If it makes you feel better, that's what I thought it said too. Also: Shame on you HN. This person not only answered the question (in a way that they thought
by blhack 16y ago
If it makes you feel better, that's what I thought it said too.
Also: Shame on you HN. This person not only answered the question (in a way that they thought was truthful, oops, they were wrong), but linked to a definition of the word.
Now they're at -9 karma overall (their user). Anybody who downvoted this or the comment below it: you probably shouldn't ever complain about HN turning into reddit.
- corin_ 16y agoNot that I was a downvoter (can't downvote direct replies to your own comments, after all), but I would assume that the main reason for the downvotes is not that their answer was wrong, but that it shouldn't have been wrong. My comment already stated which image "PIRACEY" is written in, so there was pretty much no need to make an (incorrect) guess.
- chc 16y agoHe's being downvoted for either not reading or willfully ignoring the comment he replied to. There wasn't even a question in the first place. I'm not sure why you think expecting people to at least read before replying is a Redditism, and I don't see how linking to the definition of a word is supposed to excuse it. It was a pretty objectively poor answer.