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Comment by beatpanda | Hacker News Reader

Folks, this website is not called "internet love fest". Please stop downvoting me for giving honest and complete feedback of my experience with the app.

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Let this be your lesson that presentation does, in fact, matter. Whatever your intent, your post reads as an excessively negative scorecard.

And nobody wants to read excessively negative content, man. It's a drag.

I got the same feeling. Although I agree with some of the points made I think it was the way it was worded and the "-1's" that came off as really distasteful.

Didn't bother me, got the point across rather well I thought. At least he didn't put the negative ones in red because that would have really hurt someone's feelings.

Easy there, killer. This isn't some feel-good bullshit about maybe hurting someone's feelings; it's about the atmosphere we want our community to have.

We're all social creatures. Super negative comments bring everybody down, not just whoever they're directed at-- and it's easy to be both honest and pleasant to read.

The point I was trying to make is that his statements didn't bother me and I fail to see how it would any other, I admit just my opinion though. I didn't find them to be "super negative" so this is just a disagreement over how "mean" he was being. Therefore my comment red and people's feelings. I feel that a complaint over his negative ones is overblown and doesn't drag every one down. You may disagree with me but if someone feels bummed about negative ones preceding a statement then I have to feel they are easily bummed out I guess, since easily offended doesn't fit.

I agree that it's easy to be both honest and pleasant to read but there can be disagreements over the definitions of both of those. Plus, sometimes being honest doesn't lend to being pleasant.

I work at Sauce and I upvoted your comment because I think it's great feedback.

But "internet love fest news" sounds like a great Show HN.

I assumed that's what the newest iTunes release in Russia was supposed to be.

Feedback is great! Everyone loves feedback, even if it's negative, it lets us improve and move on. How you presented your feedback was completely and utterly terrible, and turned it from constructive criticism to a situation where you looked like a bit of an ass.

Irony: feedback on the feedback is unwelcome.

I didn't up-vote your OP, but I up-voted this. I hate that dissenting opinions often get relegated to the bottom of the comment list.

It's also not called "let's complain about downvotes like a redditor."

IE7 can do inline-block but it's iffy, try giving the element "haslayout" via zoom:1 in css

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