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by 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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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.