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Totally wrong forum/place to complain. Here at HN people love that a lot! Because there was some time ago some post where on iPad I arrived on app download page - so I posted comment a'la "what shit is this" and got massively downvoted for that.


It gets my goat when people complain of having been downvoted for saying 'the exact same thing', when something else in line with a previous sentiment is heavily upvoted. (Maybe I just need to develop a greater Internet forum tolerance..)

You seem to be referring to this comment[1]. Actually speaking though, you weren't downvoted because people disagreed, but because your comment:

1) didn't add anything to the discussion at hand

2) wasn't particularly coherent

3) set no context whatsoever for your discontent (were you on an iPad? some other mobile device? does it seem like a common occurrence?)

I've made my fair share off-topic rants about the submission's readability and other annoyances (and seen other such comments) that were reasonably 'well received' by the community because it actually set the tone for a discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3173014


I wasn't complaining at all. I was ironic, but as I got downvoted for that too, then irony i guess, is also not welcome here...


People here want something that makes them think. They go out of their way to reject posts for which the primary responses are simple agreement ("me too") or disagreement ("is not").

Perhaps you simply weren't being ironic in a sufficiently interesting way.




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