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in thread Disappearing negative votes.

Firstly, it was just a question. I noticed something that I was not consciously aware of knowing about, so I asked my question.

friedo's answer was sufficient to satisfy me that it was a deliberate policy rather than a bug, and despite whatever misgivings I might have about 'authorities' that make undeclared, undiscussed and unassailable blanket decisions about what is "significant", I would almost certainly have left it at that.

Until...530750, and I responded in kind.

Don't make too much of the word lies--it is just a paraphrase of the ever popular "lies, damned lies and statistics"--I doubt the machine/site is offended.

In a world that is filling fast with 'nanny state' ideologies, with our cultures becoming ever more litigious, and where 1984 is becoming manifesto for governments, I thought my 'insurance' gag was quite funny.

Bottom line. It's not a bug. Question answered.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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Re^5: Disappearing negative votes. (site docs)
by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 17, 2006 at 12:41 UTC
    where 1984 is becoming manifesto for governments

    Yeah, I hear you. I get mysterious downvotes everytime I talk on the telephone, and say something "politically upsetting" about the fat cats. Now what could the mechanism for that be? If I say anything other than "it's coincidence", I get labelled a paranoid schizophrenic. You can't win, except by ignoring it all.

    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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      I get mysterious downvotes everytime I talk on the telephone, and say something "politically upsetting" about the fat cats.

      If the downvotes bother you, you could always conform.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        you could always conform

        Never! I'm the Savage in Brave New World ( see intelligent savage John the Savage

        I would rather die in a tent on an indian reservation, than give into the devilsih leadership who are steering the world into the soulless abyss.

        I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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