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by feld 4046 days ago
love how you had some downvotes here because people don't realize you're the blog post author

Thanks for working on this. My friend has been looking at doing some consulting and wanted to be able to distribute low cost FreeBSD-based routers. Now the framework is here...
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vog 4046 days ago
> love how you had some downvotes here because people don't realize you're the blog post author

Not sure I get this criticism.

To my understanding, downvoting is a judgement of a specific comment. It is neither about the person who wrote it, nor about whatever else that person wrote.

In particular, I don't see how these donvotes diminished the author's work on that article in any way. The 50 upvotes (currently) on that article tell an entirely different story.

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feld 4046 days ago
Why would anyone downvote "jump in and ask questions :-)"? What is there to disagree about there?

Nothing.

It was downvoted because it looked like a stranger telling someone what to do.

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