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Downvoted because you have no actual opinion on the article's content so you pick on a trivial side issue and raise its importance disproportionately. https://
by iand 13y ago
Downvoted because you have no actual opinion on the article's content so you pick on a trivial side issue and raise its importance disproportionately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_trivialit...
- _jmar777 13y agoFrom where I stand, the comment two levels up is more relevant to the article than the comment one level up...
- mherdeg 13y agoPerhaps this person's opinion is "I expected this article's content to be about a button you can press to have some effect on traffic patterns, and instead the article was about a neat tactile feedback device used for accessibility. This article doesn't match my expectations."
- kevinrpope 13y agoPerhaps the downvotes will encourage this person to be more eloquent when stating their opinions in the future. Then again, perhaps it will just cause them to rage.
- tome 13y agoCuriously it is (so far) my highest voted comment in nearly two months, so I guess others had the same reaction I did.
- kevinrpope 13y agoCan't argue with results! I wonder if a more verbose comment saying essentially the same thing would have been upvoted as much.
- tome 13y agoNow it's my highest rated comment for two-and-a-half years. I'm not sure how to feel about that.
- saraid216 13y agoMy highest rated comment (~50 upvotes) was a pun with no intellectual value. It's one of those things that makes you realize upvotes are meaningless; I now generally restrict my upvoting to behaviors I want to encourage and comments that I want higher exposure for (push them upwards).
- tome 13y agoQuite. I expected the "button" to have an effect on something. Instead I got "the little known twizzler that twizzles when it's time to cross", which is much less interesting.