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Re^4: Disappearing negative votes. (site docs)

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Feb 16, 2006 at 20:23 UTC ( [id://530773]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Disappearing negative votes. (site docs)
in thread Disappearing negative votes.

Firstly, it was just a question. I noticed something that I was not consciously aware of knowing about, so I asked my question.

friedo's answer was sufficient to satisfy me that it was a deliberate policy rather than a bug, and despite whatever misgivings I might have about 'authorities' that make undeclared, undiscussed and unassailable blanket decisions about what is "significant", I would almost certainly have left it at that.

Until...530750, and I responded in kind.

Don't make too much of the word lies--it is just a paraphrase of the ever popular "lies, damned lies and statistics"--I doubt the machine/site is offended.

In a world that is filling fast with 'nanny state' ideologies, with our cultures becoming ever more litigious, and where 1984 is becoming manifesto for governments, I thought my 'insurance' gag was quite funny.

Bottom line. It's not a bug. Question answered.


Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

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Re^5: Disappearing negative votes. (site docs)
by zentara (Archbishop) on Feb 17, 2006 at 12:41 UTC
    where 1984 is becoming manifesto for governments

    Yeah, I hear you. I get mysterious downvotes everytime I talk on the telephone, and say something "politically upsetting" about the fat cats. Now what could the mechanism for that be? If I say anything other than "it's coincidence", I get labelled a paranoid schizophrenic. You can't win, except by ignoring it all.


    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
      I get mysterious downvotes everytime I talk on the telephone, and say something "politically upsetting" about the fat cats.

      If the downvotes bother you, you could always conform.


      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
        you could always conform

        Never! I'm the Savage in Brave New World ( see intelligent savage John the Savage

        I would rather die in a tent on an indian reservation, than give into the devilsih leadership who are steering the world into the soulless abyss.


        I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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