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Can someone help me understand why the above, well-sourced post is getting downvoted into oblivion while the nasty one-line response with no supporting citation
by torstenvl 5y ago
Can someone help me understand why the above, well-sourced post is getting downvoted into oblivion while the nasty one-line response with no supporting citations is getting upvoted?
- raphlinus 5y agoOne error is that the citations only support the claim within the US, while the context of the original story and the parent comment are the world. That makes rather a large difference.
- dang 5y agoI have no idea what was going on in this thread earlier, but once the comment veers into complaining about getting downvoted, it's breaking the site guidelines and you needn't look further for an explanation. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- wyager 5y agoI wasn’t complaining about getting downvoted - I could not care less about the opinion of the median voting user on this site. I was simply explaining why anyone who disagreed with my straightforward statement of fact was impossibly far off the mark, with citations. It’s not reasonable that commenters should be prevented from engaging with people who vote on their comment. If anything, this just disincentivizes people from actually explaining why they disagree with something.