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hashkb | 4 years ago

Screw the site guidelines - drive-by downvoting this comment is highly suspicious, and cowardly.

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pc86|4 years ago

I can't even begin to imagine the bubble you must live in to ascribe words like suspicion and cowardice to someone clicking a button on a forum even most software developers in the world have never even heard of.

hashkb|4 years ago

You could try. I'd assume it was downvoted by folks who perpetuate said double-talk. If there was a defense, they'd have articulated it. But, since anonymous downvoting is easier and less risky, that's what happens. Silencing the discussion about downvotes is a meta downvote that we shouldn't accept just because it's in the guidelines.

neogodless|4 years ago

That may be, but the guidelines have a point. The original comment was interesting. Now it's just a distracting side conversation about downvotes.

giantg2|4 years ago

That's only because you broke the guidelines and commented to create a generic tangent.

My edit to ask about why I was being downvoted is based on curiosity - a key pillar of this site. If people have a divergent opinion strong enough to downvote, then I would like to read it to understand more. Furthermore, my comment was not about comment voting, but about identifying and understanding that opposing position.

I out, since it seems you're just trolling on a tangent instead of commenting on the pertainate topic.