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It was an accident. I swear. You know, sometimes you aim for the ++, but some mysterious force draws your cursor over to the -- (not enough coffee maybe? too much coffee? Or Lagavulin?). Sometimes you even notice your mistaken vote and intend to hit the +=0 before you hit submit, but forget. In the nearly seven years I've been here, it's happened to me at least twice. But not on this thread. The point being, as tye said, a single downvote doesn't mean anything. Or maybe he didn't say that...
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Re^4: Snarky comments on the ddj perl quiz
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 30, 2007 at 04:22 UTC

    It's a good point. I've done that too. Several times. (Fluff on my balls is my excuse.)

    But whenever it has happened, and I've noticed, I've always sent a /msg to the monk I dis-serviced to acknowledge my error. I had to apologise to Aristotle 2 or 3 times over the period of a couple of months for exactly this reason.

    Of course, you may not always realise, or revisit the thread to notice.

    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
    "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
    In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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