And downvoting someone because they call specific downvoting childish? That seems like the epitome of childishness to me, and simply validates my point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11644954
> Downvoting (ie, trying to bury or hide a post) because someone says sumfing u don't wike is pathetic and childish; if you disagree either argue against it or move on.
The rest of your comments increase the attack.
You are getting downvotes because your posts go on a meta tangent, and use insults. Stuff like this...
> umfing u don't wike is pathetic and childish
... is obviously going to get downvoted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645104
Or this one (also with a lower score):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645505
> is obviously going to get downvoted.
For the baby language, maybe, but downvoting something you don't personally like is pathetic and childish.
That's not an "attack" or an "insult", it's a fact.
And it's, if anything, even more pathetic and childish to petulantly downvote a poster (perhaps across different posts) because they point out that fact.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645505
> I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be serious or not.
Comments like that will usually get you downvotes.
> For the baby language, maybe, but downvoting something you don't personally like is pathetic and childish.
"People will downvote for disagreement" is a long established convention on HN. You might disagree with (I do too), but pointing it out by calling people childish is going to get downvoted. Your choice is to keep complaining using the same language (but stop complaining about being downvoted if you do so), or to use different language to complain about downvoting.
Here's PG suggesting that downvote to disagree is a problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057347
Here' PG suggesting that downvote to disagree isn't a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683
See also this thread where most people are talking about a misuse of upvoting (to upvote mean or dumb comments). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696
> And it's, if anything, even more pathetic and childish to petulantly downvote a poster (perhaps across different posts) because they point out that fact.
It's also childish to keep whining^W complaining about downvotes using the same language that got you downvotes.
So people downvoted because you personally can't understand the following two laughably easy to understand sentences?
Let's say someone here posts "fuck off"
or "you're an idiot". Please explain how
that can be interpreted as constructive
to a discussion here.
> Comments like that will usually get you downvotes.
Why? Her post made no sense to me. If I can't tell if someone is being serious how am I supposed to find out?
If only I had 500+ karma, I guess I could have just mindlessly downvoted her instead, since according to you if someone can't understand a post, the poster should suffer for it.
> You might disagree with (I do too), but pointing it out by calling people childish is going to get downvoted.
> It's also childish to keep whining^W complaining about downvotes using the same language that got you downvotes.
Yet somehow okay for you to use the same language?
>Users should live or die by their votes on that comment. If you vote up the blub comment, you should personally get the downvotes for it too. Upvotes should expose you to the karmic downside of superficial comments.