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I call it lynch mob behaviour and I despise it. I'm quite happy to make it my personal crusade to fight that sort of group behaviour, which brings out the worst
by pg 18y ago
I call it lynch mob behaviour and I despise it. I'm quite happy to make it my personal crusade to fight that sort of group behaviour, which brings out the worst in all of us.
I think what people were downmodding you for was the sheer waste of screen space over such a trivial matter.
This whole thread is such an embarrassment. This sort of angry race to the right margin over some trivial disagreement is the sort of thing that's only supposed to happen on other sites.
I know you don't mean it to be, but it's indistinguishable from trolling.
- cdr 18y agoThe right margin?
- pg 18y agoOops, yes, fixed, thanks.
- swombat 18y agoThe posts that had -20 karma totalled 7 lines of text - hardly a "sheer waste of screen space". The first one was a single line. I reacted to that. If those had had -1 - -3 karma, I would not have. I created all this waste of space, as you call it, in response to the excessive downmodding of these short posts. Creating the waste of space actually raised my karma on the whole, since after justifying myself enough the karma trend on those two posts reversed, and I got upvotes for some of the later posts. On the other hand, if I'd left the initial two posts as they were, chances are they'd be at -30, -50, maybe -80 by now, and perhaps there'd be some huge righteously offended response like there has been in other cases where someone made a slightly caustic comment on a thread like this (I think we can both recall one case where this happened). Lynch mob behaviour is real on this site. I fought vehemently it then and I'll fight it now.