Comment by ycombinete
4 months ago
And this comment will most likely be flagged now for whining about getting downvotes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:
"Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
Lol well where else am I supposed to talk about it? I get irritated about this stuff daily, so I don't really care if my short quips bore a person here or there. Being interesting is what gets me downvoted!
Well, I guess you're not supposed to talk about it haha.
But since it's irritating you I had a quick look at your comment history.
I would say that the downvotes are because a high percentage of your comments are argumentative, and occasionally just flat out insulting. Within that your tone is often condescending and dismissive.
Disagreement alone should not result in downvotes but I guess that's what happens when you do it among jerks lol. As for being condescending, I really like reductio ad absurdum and I think that rubs people wrong. Also somehow, the downvotes seem to pile up the more I reply, as a quirk of how they are calculated...