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Personally I'm usually interested when others extract key quotes from the article. So I do the same.

• Jach 16y ago
  I wouldn't call this a key quote, nor an obscure quote since it gets its own little "paragraph" (and the third for that matter). I agree with the GP, this is too youtube-comment-esque where people quote something from the video (often accompanied by "lol") and get upvoted for it. It's nice when people quote from the article and then discuss something, but just quoting...
• dfox 16y ago
  then at least add some of your thoughts on that quote.
• jdp23 16y ago
  I got several downvotes for responding here. Another response pointing out why my comment was useful got a bunch of downvotes and has since been deleted. Both of these posts futhered the conversation and were within site guidelines. To me this looks like people are downvoting based on whether or not they agree with somebody, rather than the official criteria. How does it look to others?
  • staunch 16y ago
    Voting on HN is, and always has been, used to express approval or disapproval.
  • allenbrunson 16y ago
    What it looks like to me is that you are getting clear and unequivocal evidence that what you posted is not very valuable, yet you are trying to blame it on everybody else, rather than yourself.