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HN can be frustrating, you'll get voted through the floor by the initial rush of dopamine addicts frustrated questions don't contain info.

Then, you'll be told you got voted through the floor because you complained you got voted through the floor.

Over the 14 years I've been here, I've gotten enough training data to A) wait it out and/or B) make an edit showing humor about it? "wow, -4 for an innocuous take you'd find at any coffee shop!?"

On the net, it doesn't matter much unless you're a new account, things always trend positive as long as you don't _always_ show up with takes explaining everyone is committing group think and you're the only one who gets it. (p.s. that's not even close to what you're doing here! just illustrating the only situation in which I think people get persistently negative votes)

EDIT: Lol



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