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Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html



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Except it was decisively upvoted, not downvoted, in the end. It's pointless to ask why there was a bit of downage in the vote stream. Maybe someone misclicked. Maybe someone was mistaken. Most of these cases sort themselves out rather quickly; meanwhile a comment about it sticks around inaccurately forever.


Even when it is paired with a question asking for clarification on the subject matter at hand?


Yes, because you can always delete the downvote noise and keep the clarifying question.




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