in reply to Voting button missing in Perl News

I ++ed this, and saw it had a reputation of -5 (!!!). What's the deal? It wasn't a stupid question. He wants to vote on replies. I realise the title is a little misleading, but for crying out loud, did you read the paragraph before --ing it?
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Re: Re: Voting button missing in Perl News
by bladx (Chaplain) on Apr 02, 2001 at 18:36 UTC
    Thank you grinder for actually reading my question before voting on it!! I lost like 7 XP for no reason. This is NOT a flamer or trolling post!! It was a serious question related to the Monastery. I don't understand why most people here just shoot before they actually read my questions... :( Please care next time! P.S. Sorry for the title of this post, it was a little wacko.

    bladx ~ ¡muchas veces tengo preguntas!
      Heh - I just voted it ++ and saw that it is no longer in the negative - good, your question does not deserve to be flamed TOO heavily. But I do have a beef with questions like this.

      My main beef is with this attitude: "Hey, this is broken, fix it." It's not broken. How many times must people be reminded NOT to abuse discussions - most discussions are based on individual wants that really do not add to the overall effectiveness of this site. vroom is busy enough.

      Furthermore - we are programmers, not 'Power Users'!

      Programmers don't whine about stuff - we find ways around the problem - granted, there is no way around this problem, but then again - it's not a problem, because the newsbot is not a user that needs encouragement with ++'s.

      Don't get me started on 'Power Users' . . .

      Actually, I thought the title was very descriptive - I knew immediately what you were talking about before I even read the paragraph.

      Next time - ask someone in the chatterbox first. It will save you embarrassment - or at least you can blame it on other people. :P

      Jeff

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