Title: I ran a little experiment... in a popular story, I said basically the same thing three ways:<p>Angry sarcasm: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465422 (current score: -5)<p>Definition of my scope of knowledge, followed by the same opinion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465428 (current score: -4)<p>One-sentence witty sarcasm: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465436 (current score: 9)<p>Now, I really value our relationship, and it's meant to me more than any other coder/news-community relationship I could have imagined, but this isn't the Hacker News I feel in love with.<p>We all know "karma doesn't matter", but it definitely shapes the discussion that takes place. So let's reiterate some social guidelines which always helped this relationship flourish. I'll start:<p>- don't downvote things you disagree with, only things which are egregiously offtopic or seriously detract from the conversation
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