Comment on 9/11 Survey

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:15:31 GMT

Score of a comment depends on its author as well as (or sometimes even more than) its content. It's hard to overcome this, but nevertheless having a comment similar to the grandparent standing at -7 doesn't paint a good image of LW voting habits. It can be that people have downvoted it because they suspect roland indeed knows what the opinions of LW:ers [1] are and is trolling, but far more plausible is that most downvoters (of that comment) did vote just because it is a comment written by an unpopular author on an unpopulat topic. Voting on topic is fine with me, but one should do it once for the post and not automatically downvote any subsequent comment of the author.

[1] Is it possible in English to use the Nordic habit of separating abbreviations from suffixes by a colon? It looks useful, but I thought it is permitted only in Swedish and Finnish.

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