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-12 [deleted] 10 November 2012 01:15PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 November 2012 10:20:58PM *  0 points [-]

If I think anti-feedback rules are harmful (and I do), I am downvoting this post no matter what (and I did).

Unfortunately, just the presence of the rule or even implication that this is a rule is sufficient to counteract a lot of such feedback. It's not enough for some people to ignore the anti-feedback convention and vote anyway, it might be necessary to take the anti-feedback convention down explicitly as well, to indicate clearly that it doesn't apply to the post.

(Notice how the post managed to stay at exactly 0 Karma this whole time, with only temporary fluctuations.)

Edit: It seems that I was wrong, after several hours the post started going into the negative, and is currently at -10, despite no official change of rules; dissenting feedback was strong enough. This thread might have played a role.

Comment author: Kindly 10 November 2012 10:23:43PM *  0 points [-]

Right, I agree with that and I suppose I should have stated more explicitly that I don't want anti-feedback on the post to be the rule, not just that I intend to act as though there is no such rule.