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Crux comments on Knox and Sollecito freed - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: komponisto 03 October 2011 08:24PM

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Comment author: Crux 04 October 2011 04:12:44AM 2 points [-]

Thanks. I guess a possible reason why it wasn't well-received was because maybe it read as "Hopefully he'll trade rep with me =D" or something. Perhaps any upvote declaration would suffer from that, but especially one that doesn't have any other content to distract from it or warrant an upvote on its own.

Comment author: pedanterrific 04 October 2011 04:22:39AM 4 points [-]

Something like that. A post just saying 'upvote' seemed astonishingly pointless to me, and thus "the sort of thing I would prefer to see less of on Less Wrong", but your explanation was perfectly satisfactory so I reversed my vote (down to up).

I find this sort of thing happens a lot- the first couple downvotes can usually be mitigated by a clarifying edit.