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by plinkplonk 4939 days ago
"Do you think I should delete this and the three more comments in this thread, which were made in similar manner?"

No (imo). Obsessing about 'correct form' and karma is just as bad as completely ignoring it. Everyone gets downvoted once in a while. Learn from your mistakes, and go with the community ethos, and you'll be fine. Karma is just a number on a webpage.

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> Obsessing about 'correct form' and karma

I didn't even think about karma, honestly, I asked having in mind the quality of the thread. I'm still rather new here, I started posting just a couple of months ago and learned by watching others and not from a textbook of rigid rules and that's why I'm still sometimes unsure about how to proceed; even more so because I actually do care about the 'ethos' (although I probably wouldn't use this word) more than about points of any kind.

Either way, thanks for advice and for taking the time to respond even though this was probably one of the least exciting topics you could discuss here, I appreciate it very much.