lessdazed comments on Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 30 October 2011 12:52:16AM *  4 points [-]

Please don't ask this for every comment of yours that is downvoted, at least until you can reliably make comments that aren't downvoted. It clutters the recent comment threads.

(ETA: I posted this in response to two of the same query being issued in a row. I don't object to people asking why they were downvoted when it's occasional.)

Comment author: lessdazed 30 October 2011 05:16:59AM *  0 points [-]

I think that asking why a comment was downvoted would be legitimate even more than two times in a row, were the downvoted comments downvoted more than once.

For comments that were only downvoted once, it is not usually a question worth asking. So I agree with the literal reading of the original "don't ask this for every comment of yours that is downvoted" more than the clarification.