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Earlier yesterday, the comment was heavily voted down before myself and another voted it up. It's why there were two comments talking about it being voted down.
by tb_technical 3y ago
Earlier yesterday, the comment was heavily voted down before myself and another voted it up. It's why there were two comments talking about it being voted down. Did you notice they were both posted within a minute of each other? It's deleted now, but this did happen
- dang 3y agoIt got one downvote before you voted it back up 7 minutes later. That's not "everyone", that's literally "a single downvote showed up for a few minutes before 12 upvotes in a row came in". What I mean by the contrarian dynamic is that often, negative feedback shows up first, only to produce a flood of objections by people saying some variant of "I can't believe this place is so negative". This happens so frequently that I think it must be a product of something hard-wired in the medium* and something hard-wired in humans. Like any predictable mechanism, this one tends to be bad for discussion quality. * I mean the medium of the internet forum
- tb_technical 3y agoI'm pretty sure the score was -2 before myself and another person commented on it. Not that it matters. My perception at the time of posting the comment was correct. If I could edit the wording now, I would, but I can't. Weird flex.
- dang 3y agoNot to pile on, but in case it's interesting: there had been one downvote and upvote by the time you commented. The lowest the score ever reached was 0.