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I guess the downvoters somehow completely missed Roger's smiley.

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• Dylan16807 11y ago
  The comment has no value, smiley or not. Knowing that you're being annoying does not automatically excuse being annoying.
  • ectoplasm 11y ago
    Oh, I don't know. I believe that you can always find something interesting to say about even the stupidest remarks. For instance, 3 billion miles no longer fits in a uint32 when converted to kilometers. Hell, we even lost the Mars Climate Orbiter because of a mistaken conversion between English and metric units. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288 http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288
  • cpncrunch 11y ago
    It must be a strange world that you live in if you consider a good-natured joke said with a smile to be "annoying". Anyway, my comment missing seeing the smiley was in reference to untog's comment that Roger was starting a flamewar (when he clearly wasn't).
    • Dylan16807 11y ago
      Bringing up an often-seen furious bikeshedding debate is not a good thing to do. It can be an honest mistake, but it's still a mistake. Smiles convey intent, they don't have magic powers. They can't stop something from being annoying. So it's not that I'm against good-natured jokes with smiles, it's just that those attributes can't save all possible statements. Smiles don't strongly affect whether you effect a flamewar, either.