Re: Re: Downvoting & XP

I've noticed that one particular user seems to have garnered the lion's share of "worst nodes" across several category of worst nodes. Why that is you'd have to ask the monk them self. If you dare.

Oh, didn't he ask yet? Well, as long as I'm here, I have the lion's share because I'm not a kiss-ass school kid who wants people to up-vote him so he'll look smart. I'm not as young, and therefore not as liberal as the average person here, and I'm also not partial to Perl related stuff just because I program in Perl, which unfortunately goes against human nature, so it's understandable that my Boycott O'Reilly thread would be downvoted here.

All the college students who think they know how programming in the real world works and who've down-voted me should take their school books and their merlyn posters and their rock and roll and lock them in a trunk in their parent's attic and join the YMCA and make men of yourselves.

Young man, are you listening to me? I said, young man, what do you want to be? I said, young man, you can make real your dreams. But you got to know this one thing!

No man does it all by himself. I said, young man, put your pride on the shelf, And just go there, to the y.m.c.a. I'm sure they can help you today.

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Re: Re: Re: Downvoting & XP by Elgon (Curate) on May 05, 2004 at 05:32 UTC
Deep breath Wassercrats, Be at peace, calm, passive. I'm fairly sure that no one wants anybody to be some kind of rubber-stamped boring programmer here. On the other hand, you sometimes seem to revel in your ability to irritate people by venting spleen about them and their opinions. People do not generally downvote a post because they do not personally agree with the opinions there, they do so because of the way that the post is put forward or the fact that it contains personal attacks. You do seem to have a habit of attacking or criticizing people who disagree with you. Disputation and argument are good - the hottest fire makes the strongest steel - but when this breaks down into abuse or when an opinion or point is asserted with no underlying argument, the alloy is ruined. If you wish to be a maverick, and express radical opinions or those which you know will make you unpopular, or do so in what appears to be a rude way, you cannot very well then turn around and expect people not to do the same in return by downvoting you; As I have regretfully done here. Elgon FWIW - I did not study a computer science related subject at University, I studied Chemistry and French, but I have been programming since I was about nine and now spend a great deal of my time fixing broken code in "the real world". Much of what is discussed here is a tad academic for most of the coding/fixing I do, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a good idea to pay attention. "Stercus! Dixit Pooh. Eeyore, missilis lux navigii heffalumporum iaculas. Piglet, mecum ad cellae migratae secundae concurras."	[reply]
Re^3: Downvoting & XP by chaoticset (Chaplain) on Sep 11, 2004 at 08:54 UTC
I have the lion's share because I'm not a kiss-ass school kid who wants people to up-vote him so he'll look smart. Could it be possible that you're an older, more bitter person who wants people to down-vote him so that he'll look controversial? You seem proud to have garnered community distrust and distaste, which makes me wonder if it was your only true aim. ----------------------- You are what you think.	[reply]


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