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thanks. this is very helpful.
by ecq 17y ago
thanks. this is very helpful.
- pg 17y agoTo the people downvoting this: what is your problem? The guy is being nice and saying thanks, and you're downvoting him to -4?
- panic 17y agoWhat if everyone posted a similar contentless "thanks" post on every article they found interesting? Such posts would dominate the comments. There's already a "thanks, this is very helpful button" -- it's called the up arrow. EDIT: I'm not trying to troll here, I'm serious -- do you think comments like this add something to a discussion?
- pg 17y agoExperience shows they're harmless. New users are explicitly told such comments are ok: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- Confusion 17y agoIf everyone would do that, then that would be a problem. However, not everyone is doing it and it doesn't seem like more people are starting to do it. It's just not necessary to downvote superfluous comments; not getting any upvotes is enough of a signal.
- nostrademons 17y agoYou could just upvote the "thanks, this is very helpful" comment...
- kyro 17y agoI've been noticing many acceptable comments being downvoted a lot recently.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoA five-word upvote is not an acceptable comment.
- jacquesm 17y agoGuilty as charged, let me explain why. When this was posted first, it looked like a pattern I've seen before on HN, some spammer posts a link and then uses a sockpuppet (or more) make it seem as though the content is great. For another example of that see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=941568 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=941568 So I was a bit quick on the trigger there. On the other hand, if I would have been able to undo my vote (reddit style) I would have done so. edit: it seems quite arbitrary to single these out for being modded down, there are much better examples of good contributions that got dumped on.
- pg 17y agoYou can tell they're not sockpuppets by the account ages. In the situations you're talking about, the accounts are mostly new.
- jacquesm 17y agoIn this case, yes, but I only clued in to that later. The link I posted above I would say is definitely a spammer+sock puppet or at least an acquaintance of a spammer.
- wmeredith 17y agoI down-voted it for poor punctuation.