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a) If I chose to exercise my main account here, there's nothing that would prevent me from downvoting. There would be no need to create a new account. Even tr

a) If I chose to exercise my main account here, there's nothing that would prevent me from downvoting. There would be no need to create a new account. Even trying to wouldn't make sense because... b) New accounts cannot downvote anybody. By operating here with an alt account instead of my main account, I give up my ability to downvote. Given A and B, your entire premise is totally messed up. c) It's sad that you've resorted twice to the "it's sad" shtick. The comment was a non-aggressive, good faith one. How about you not take it as an attack? How about you take it as a genuine request? How about you consider following through with the request on that token? Do better than that response, too.

scrollaway 11y ago
a+b) My apologies. You're right, I didn't mean "downvote". As for c... "Do better", what? "Do better" is not a valid comment. This is a valid comment, your previous one was not. Do you want me to explain what I said in further details? I thought it was self-explanatory. PhasmaFelis has decided to take an issue which is clearly controversial to even members not involved and "nutshell" it extremely disrespectuously. Much as it's petty twitter wars for some, it's also extremely serious issues for others. Jobs can be lost. Jobs have been lost. Some because of ethical concerns, corruption being unveiled etc. Some other jobs have been lost because random idiots decided to false-flag people to their companies until they got fired. Some have been lost because of out-of-context, selective quoting (hey, remember the PyCon forking drama? Yes, like that). So yes, it's sad that someone who is probably not involved further than the petty twitter wars would choose to either adopt such a dismissive and diminishing attitude, or would choose to lie to further whatever cause he may have had in mind. Edit: As for actual downvotes, there's some serious downvoting on actual discussion going on in this entire sub-thread. That, too, is sad.
joshuapants 11y ago
I find it telling that you've given an in-depth argument to something that is basically inconsequential but are afraid to actually address the topic at hand. Also, please spare us the Tumblr level "do better," unless of course you "can't even."

scrollaway 11y ago

a+b) My apologies. You're right, I didn't mean "downvote". As for c... "Do better", what? "Do better" is not a valid comment. This is a valid comment, your previous one was not. Do you want me to explain what I said in further details? I thought it was self-explanatory. PhasmaFelis has decided to take an issue which is clearly controversial to even members not involved and "nutshell" it extremely disrespectuously. Much as it's petty twitter wars for some, it's also extremely serious issues for others. Jobs can be lost. Jobs have been lost. Some because of ethical concerns, corruption being unveiled etc. Some other jobs have been lost because random idiots decided to false-flag people to their companies until they got fired. Some have been lost because of out-of-context, selective quoting (hey, remember the PyCon forking drama? Yes, like that). So yes, it's sad that someone who is probably not involved further than the petty twitter wars would choose to either adopt such a dismissive and diminishing attitude, or would choose to lie to further whatever cause he may have had in mind. Edit: As for actual downvotes, there's some serious downvoting on actual discussion going on in this entire sub-thread. That, too, is sad.

joshuapants 11y ago

I find it telling that you've given an in-depth argument to something that is basically inconsequential but are afraid to actually address the topic at hand. Also, please spare us the Tumblr level "do better," unless of course you "can't even."