I didn't down vote. I guess someone thought your comment was content free. It is frustrating when you have low karma for people to down vote but not explain why. Usually they balance out.
I'm not even sure I know what "content free" means. So complimenting the post as being nice and stating that I plan to make use of the information in the future is worthy of a down vote? I wasn't expecting an up vote but I didn't think anyone would dislike my comment so much to take that 1 sec to click it down. Whatever.
Imagine your comment was at the top. The linked article doesn't say how to get the effect. Your comment doesn't say how to get the effect. So it would all be a bit mystifying.
Imagine your comment was in the middle of the page. There would be other comments below yours that would be more worthy of people's time to read than yours. So your comment should appear below those comments. Thus it should attract a few downvotes.
Upvoting the link would be more appropriate than posting a generic compliment.
If you had said "This is an excellent idea and I will steal it because (a) it will make it easier for people to link to and quote me (b) it will make it easier for me to link to my earlier articles (c) ..." then that would be different: you would be providing reasons, and that might provoke further useful discussion. It might not attract upvotes, but unless you were just repeating what someone else had said it shouldn't attract downvotes.
That one second to vote something down is not a serious barrier to downvoting. (Neither is the one second to vote something up a serious barrier to upvoting.)
Thank you for that. Now I understand sort of. I didn't think my comment was any less than a few others. But the way you put it makes me figure that several of the other comments that didn't add any thing were also voted down. But anyway... thanks for not just being a... oh wait... I've said too much already... I should just up vote your comment in silence. :)
awesome... 3 more down votes. At this rate I should be back down to 0 Karma by morning. If I am doing something wrong here wouldn't it be better to tell me what it is rather than just down vote in silence?
People interpret it as whining, and feel whining is deserving of downvotes.
It's not a community norm I agree with --- I feel that if you want to know what you've done wrong and you're not acting all entitled about it (oh, but some people might interpret your reactions as acting entitled) then someone should tell you.
I don't think my "why the down vote" was any type of "entitlement". It was a just a question. Could easily ahve been answered. and it was. but then it was also down voted.. which in itself is not helpful at all. The answer given was some what helpful but I had follow up to it. and that too was down voted.. still with no real helpful answer. So at that point I was more frustrated than anything. Now I understand.
I wasn't ranting at all. And certainly not the first time. I asked a simple question. Then a follow up question for clarity. And rather than help me to understand... people just kept down voting in silence. But now I know. Be brilliant or be silent. Got it. And I do care about Karma a little because that is the only way I will be able to go around down voting in silence like a coward. ;) j/k
