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11 points? 11 points!!!!

man I'm really thinking about leaving this site. people ask questions on here and sometimes they don't get past 1... (when they are legit) and things like this... get 11!!

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When I was a writer for Wired News, it was always exasperating to see the previous day's stats and find that the story with the word "iPod" in the title got 5 times the pageviews of the "hard stories" on topics like privacy breaches or environmental waste.

But them's the breaks.

It's not a vote on the True Merit of a submission -- it's just a nod to something you happen to have found interesting that day.

If you're going to leave, just leave. There's no need to waste our time telling us about it. I'm not trying to be (overly) harsh, but I'm pretty sure there are far more people than just me who are tired of wasting time reading comments from people threatening to leave or bitching about a post that got too high on the homepage.

I think bitching about things getting too modded-up is a good story-downvote substitute. I think we need more of it.

I know I'm going to get voted down for this, but your comment is fair - I was going to vote it up until I realised its current points....

11 points - irony is a wonderful thing :)

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