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Comment by rkagerer | Hacker News Reader

Don't stress. Like Whose Line Is It Anyway, "the points don't really count." :-p.

Ah I just get annoyed. You write up your genuine experience and it gets buried. That's not helpful to anyone. It's not helpful to the engineers on a project or the customers. But it validates someone's ego somewhere. It just seems so immature.

I'd rather there was no upvote or downvote at all.

> I'd rather there was no upvote or downvote at all.

You've had an account for 11 days, I'm not sure you've had enough experience to form a proper opinion on this. I feel like the upvoting/downvoting system helps a lot.

I’ve been here a long long time. Around 2009. Occasionally I walk away for a few months.

I was there when it wasn’t possible to criticise MSFT because of the second coming of Satya. I was there when Google did no evil. Now look where we are.

> a long long time. Around 2009.

Laughs in 4-digit Slashdot ID

Why the new a/c, then?

exactly. Don't remember a time that it was ever impossible to criticize microsoft either.

Well, I've had an account for over a year. I think that the voting system is not generally very good, as it is subject to the same ills as all other such systems. Productive comments with unpopular views inevitably get buried, especially on threads which touch anything to do with politics.

It gives me an indication of whether my comments please people or annoy them, and encourages me to keep the two in balance so that my karma stays level.

If you need to act like someone you are not we are missing out.

I offer no solution.

I have a theory that there's a limit to the human ability to be genuine, and "just be yourself" is not very meaningful, because all interpersonal communication is inescapably an act. Of course you can have sincere intent, and make a great effort to convey what you think is true, but this always has to be done in some kind of register, and so it's always a performance (however simple). Shrek tells us that ogres are like onions, but if you peel all the layers off an onion it vanishes.

Perhaps but maybe not haha

Beyond your current self you have room to craft the even greater art-work you aspire to become. The creative effort ideally captures the emotions and experiences.

You are your own composition.

Arguably, judging you should be a privilege reserved for people who know you.

Should civilized men engage in this assumption that everyone is easily understood entirely by written words or does the act describe how shallow the jury is?

I'm sure I have much to learn from people down voting my comments without saying anything.

If only we could all be more like them, then we wouldn't need to have these conversations. haha

You replied to someone's elation at an unexpected feature with snark based on a bitter experience, yes, you're going to get downvoted.

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