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Your HN karma is nearly 33 thousand. Why get so aggressive about a few down votes? I was among those who down voted your earlier comment, and I did so because

• hinkley 3y ago
  This account is over 3000 days old so that’s less than eleven imaginary internet points per day. Which is really how it mostly goes. Three points here, six points there. Nothing much for a couple of days, then something up or down. It’s not the points it’s the conversation. One of the few times this year I scored highly, I said virtually the same thing in two parts of the same post. Nothing sarcastic, no dark humor, something like +40 points and responses for one, no responses and oblivion for the other. I only know they former because the latter made me curious. Popularity is weird, not that I’m probably telling you anything new. There are some ideas that are only popular here for a certain crowd, and if they see it first you’re good, if they don’t it’s either gone, or you come back a few hours later to see you’ve swung from -2 to +5. It’s a nice vindication but your flow is gone and so I never feel like those conversations get as far. Maybe that person is a kook, or maybe you’ve had a narrow experience. Or they have. Maybe if you talk about it you’ll learn which. One of those topics, based on previous experience (here, elsewhere, and I’m person”, seems to be, “DP is much more than caching”. Anyway, thanks for replying.