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... and in other news, pigs have grown wings and are flying! seriously, why QE? is base stacking plus some electron cloud sharing not a good enough explanati

• jlcgull 16y ago
  will the anonymous downvoter please stand up and show some gumption?
  • teilo 16y ago
    From the Guidelines: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    • jlcgull 16y ago
      not complaining. just asking "why" ? i hope that is considered fair. if not, then god help HN the day i get downvoting privileges. edit: being downvoted for a comment like this i understand and agree to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1504855 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1504855 but being downvoted without a reply for what i wrote to this thread's parent... simply makes no sense!
      • tome 16y ago
        The reason it is annoying is that 5 hours later some HN readers who actually understood your comment have upvoted your post to 4. Now your complaint is sticking around completely redundantly and this whole thread is taking up a lot of screen real-estate.
        • jlcgull 16y ago
          all right, point taken. and dare i say, lesson learned. however, it does represent, at least to me, a flaw in the whole HN voting system; given that user privileges are tied to karma points, i feel that upvotes should be allowed as they are now, but downvotes __must__ require some form of response from the downvoter(s) as to why they are downvoting anything ( a la /. ). you don't need to write a paragraph explaining why you downvoted anything, but you should be required to pick at least __one__ response tag that classifies your reason for downvoting (wrong, inflammatory, trollish or whatever). anyways, sorry for taking up screen real estate with all this unneeded c.r.a.p. i better get back to "real life"[TM] and soon!