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I was down voted because I gave a braggart some deserving blowback over his possession of a third monitor.
Here is what I wrote: Link[^]
I received -16 points for that comment.
I consider negative feedback an opportunity to learn. I carefully considered the context of the comment and the subsequent vitriol and I've reached the conclusion that the offended party may have been confused by my comment. My best guess is that the down voter is an aficionado of the Monitor Lizard[^]
Undoubtedly, he has several cages of the little beasts throughout his mother's basement. I can see him now in the dim light of that basement, mental function inhibited by the gases given off by dead insects and decaying lizard dung, furiously searching the internet for posts that decry the virtues of his darling little pets.
To that sad person I offer this clarification: I was referring to computer monitors.
Feel free to post an apology here (or private message).
Get some fresh air first - I wouldn't want you to embarrass yourself further.
-MehGerbil
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I didn't downvote, I upvoted (I am a poser)! No idea why you got 16 downvotes lost 16 points, but wasn't me
modified 27-Nov-14 6:48am.
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MehGerbil did not get 16 downvotes, it got 1 downvote which equate to -16 point. One person made it so insecure it had to post this thread.
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Upvoted you for this. Will go a small way in compensating for someone's downvote.
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You can't down-vote in the lounge.
Or at least I can't.
So was it an "abuse" vote? The rep history should tell you.
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I sooo wanted to report this message.
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How can you tell it was down-voted? Whatever the case I thought it was funny. I just voted it a 5 to help. Don't worry about it man. Some people are just over sensitive. If they can't take a joke, then the joke's on them.
Jeremy Falcon
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So... you weren't talking about iron clad ships?
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MehGerbil wrote: I was down voted I don't think Lounge messages can be downvoted. I believe they can only be upvoted.
/ravi
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I've a -16 in my voting history.
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Perhaps one of the lizards dropped off his shoulder and onto the keyboard?
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Ah, I just read KEP's explanation.
/ravi
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I guess you hit a nerve.
I could rant a bit about this subject but I'll just refer to Jeremy Falcons answer instead, he expressed it much nicer than I ever would be able to.
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Just when I was starting to almost idolize you for your courage in coming-out, and standing up for the right to public display of your prosthetics ... now, you post this. Well, I guess it's almost always better to never idolize someone.
Is it possible that by taking up Lounge space with a new thread for griping about a meaningless rep-wound from either the abuse-report-knife, or the spam-report-knife, you are throwing gasoline on the flame-war bonfire that keeps trolls warm in the winter of their discontent ?
Jes' sayin' ...
cheers, Bill
p.s. I have a regular phantom down-voter (with a high-rep) on QA using some clever algorithm to avoid giving a clue to who they may be. My blood has learned to coagulate faster.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Bill,
The best way to interpret my posts is to read them with the understanding that I'm constantly working towards unity with all of my CP brethren and... er... cistern.
Perhaps I'm an idealist who trusts the nature of others too freely?
If that is a fault, sir, and I pray that you're not of said opinion, then I must confess that it is a fault I wear proudly! Even then I'm willing to set these trivialities aside for it occurs to me that my foil and your phantom voter may be one in the same. We are bedeviled by some dark foe of the greater good I'd wager.
Best to you,
-MehGerbil
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The game's afoot!
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Yes, afoot, and may the most surreal carry the day, but what if this is not athlete's foot, but the kind of rash that turns some sphincter inside-out ?
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Not athletes foot, Dr Woodruff; it was the footprints of a gigantic hound...
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OriginalGriff,
You presume to know too much, sir, and I think perhaps you make a joke.
I do not see how any man can gather what you claim to have gathered from so little evidence!
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"In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically...Let me see if I can make it clearer. Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backwards, or analytically."
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What a great quote ! I had to go run look it up immediately.
As that quote digested, my mind came up with a "resonance" to the debate on the virtues of declarative vs. procedural programming languages.
Could it be that one barrier to learning to think in F#, for example, could be that it requires a level of some kind of "cognitive comfort" with reasoning from "result to process" ? I'll excrete that here as a very "weak hypothesis."
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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That is well and good but I shall comment on one of your observations nonetheless.
You said something about “...the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” while others observed "The dog did nothing in the night-time."
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