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HN downvotes are often when: - someone speaks positively about crypto - someone speaks not positively about the American Dem party - someone mentions the abo
by andirk 4y ago
HN downvotes are often when:
- someone speaks positively about crypto
- someone speaks not positively about the American Dem party
- someone mentions the above reasons for downvotes (as seen here soon)
Those are both very petty and, among a group of likeminded intelligent people, is pretty sad.
- musicale 4y ago> likeminded Well, yes. And it does look like you are currently being downvoted.
- yarg 4y ago> someone mentions the above reasons for downvotes (as seen here soon) To be fair, you are trolling for downvotes (snarky comments go grey very quickly - as well you knew before you posted). On the politics side, as long as you're acting in good faith, and thinking about what you're posting, I doubt that you'll get downvoted (ignoring that politics is generally off topic for the site). Regarding cryptocurrency, nothing good has come of it. There are many uses for a distributed ledger - some very useful. None of them need proof-of-work and a DAG would be more useful than a LinkedList for the purposes of decentralisating.
- andirk 4y agoI am serious about my 2 mentions of downvotes which in turn will cause the 3rd. Kinda snarky but fully true. I have lightly replied to MSDNC comments w/ negative yet factually true statements related to the MSDNC and gotten downvoted. I keep it minimal but politics are a huge part of daily life and technology. Plenty of crypto is scammy but I believe in a form of currency not backed by bombing brown people and guarding Arab oil investments for profit. Pipe dream? Maybe.