Without getting into the meat of your post: this is the second or third time you’ve recommended Jacqueline Carey. The first time you recommended her, I checked out the Kushiel series because I’ve tended to agree with your taste about some other things. I don’t think I ever thanked you for the recommendation, but I need to. Thank you.
Everyone else: get and read the Kushiel series. You won’t regret it.
You’ll go crazy trying to figure out every downvote. Do like me, and just secretly take it as further evidence of rampant stupidity and your intellectual superiority.
(Upvotes are also evidence of your intellectual superiority. You can’t lose.)
I think the sentiment you’re trying to express is captured in simply upvoting the post you’re in agreement with. If you have nothing to add, it’s probably best not to make a comment.
You don’t have to break a rule to be downvoted; someone just had to find your comment substantially less valuable than the average. However, downvoting someone for expressing assent has been explicitly discouraged.
Not only that, I have also noticed that if you ask why you were downvoted, the downvoted comment usually gets voted back up. I have no idea why this is, but it happened with another of my posts. I think that one fluctuated above and below and finally rested on 0.
I’d guess that asking why you were downvoted makes other people think about why you were downvoted, and hence think about voting you up or down, which both overrides the previous vote since people vote to move numbers towards where they think they should be and also changes the mix of voters.
It may also simply draw attention to the comment thread due to people seeing the “why downvoted?” comment appear in the recents comment list. The more people reading a comment, the more who may vote on it. Inexplicable downvotes tend to persist more in long comment threads, low on the page, on older posts.
Without getting into the meat of your post: this is the second or third time you’ve recommended Jacqueline Carey. The first time you recommended her, I checked out the Kushiel series because I’ve tended to agree with your taste about some other things. I don’t think I ever thanked you for the recommendation, but I need to. Thank you.
Everyone else: get and read the Kushiel series. You won’t regret it.
I’m ambivalent after reading the first book (Dart). How do the sequels hold up?
Better up to Kushiel’s Avatar IMO, then down again from that high point.
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You’ll go crazy trying to figure out every downvote. Do like me, and just secretly take it as further evidence of rampant stupidity and your intellectual superiority.
(Upvotes are also evidence of your intellectual superiority. You can’t lose.)
I didn’t downvote you, but please try to include some more content than ‘seconded’, even if it’s just expressing what it is that you agree with.
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I think the sentiment you’re trying to express is captured in simply upvoting the post you’re in agreement with. If you have nothing to add, it’s probably best not to make a comment.
You don’t have to break a rule to be downvoted; someone just had to find your comment substantially less valuable than the average. However, downvoting someone for expressing assent has been explicitly discouraged.
Not only that, I have also noticed that if you ask why you were downvoted, the downvoted comment usually gets voted back up. I have no idea why this is, but it happened with another of my posts. I think that one fluctuated above and below and finally rested on 0.
I’d guess that asking why you were downvoted makes other people think about why you were downvoted, and hence think about voting you up or down, which both overrides the previous vote since people vote to move numbers towards where they think they should be and also changes the mix of voters.
It may also simply draw attention to the comment thread due to people seeing the “why downvoted?” comment appear in the recents comment list. The more people reading a comment, the more who may vote on it. Inexplicable downvotes tend to persist more in long comment threads, low on the page, on older posts.