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by jasonlotito 1129 days ago
I dislike meta posts generally, but I'll give it a go so maybe you learn.

> Now I'm getting downvoted again. Oh hn, you crack me up.

Because you were whining about down votes.

Generally, when I see someone whining about voting, I'll vote down without a second thought, regardless of the content of the post. Why?

From the guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

I know a good number of other people react this way as well.

Instead of whining about getting voted up or down, instead, use this as an opportunity to improve your messaging.

> I'll happily take the negative karma, cause I know it brings some awareness.

Up-voted comments bring more awareness. If you truly cared about bringing awareness to something, you'd want to communicate effectively, and effective communication is critical in our field.

Anyways, I generally hate meta comments like this one, but hopefully you have a better understanding of why people are most likely down voting this comment.

2 comments

Great response!

That said, my intention wasn't to whine. I truly don't care about the act of getting downvoted.

What I was trying to point out is that I was getting downvoted in my original post, because "kids these days" are against the general concept of TDD. That's in response to this OP's comment that I quoted.

Why were they against TDD? One person said it was because their CTO made them do 100% test coverage and that caused the startup to fail. Is that the failure of TDD or the failure of the CTO? ;-)

Now you're getting downvoted? LOL! For the record, I upvoted you.

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