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by scott_s 4278 days ago
In my experience, the corrective upvotes happen without calling out that the downvotes are happening.
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Sometimes, yes. But my actual goal is to encourage dissenters to reply, because I actually want to know why they disagree with me. The karma itself is entirely meaningless except in that it affects how many people end up reading the comment.
Who says they disagree? Your post was just spam, saying all the obvious things everybody already knew.