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Ironic downmods are my least favorite thing in the world. Let's downmod jamongkad just because he claims not to care about being downvoted!

Is that funny to people, or something? I just don't get it.

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I downvoted jamongkad because he made a shallow argument.

You can say what he said about anything because there is always something more important than something else. It's a cheap way to dismiss someone without actually addressing their points.

Im a fan of the ironic downvote personally. Its hilarious if you have the right sense of humor. It makes me almost pee myself laughing.

I don't understand why we shouldn't be hacking the downvote system. This is supposed to be hacker news. Ironic downmods seem consistent with that thinking, as well as consistent with the tricksters hackers are supposed to be.

Agreed, I'm not really a liberal down voter (well if you add the fact that I down voted Wallflower for being a baby a few days ago), the gist of my original comment so to speak is how everybody goes all randy about getting downvoted and such. But yeah this is not Reddit and Digg we must practice a modicum of restraint when we feel we need to downvote on something. On an interesting side note my original comment garnered 2 points!

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