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Why do I have -14 karama?

3 pointsjv22227 comments

Any ideas? Thx in advance :)

   -8 points by jv2222 4 days ago | link | parent | on: 
   Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

   If I was experts-exchange.com I would be shiing myself 
   just about now.


   -8 points by jv2222 4 days ago | link
   shiing = shi - - ing !

You can click threads, to see how much karma you got/lost from your comments

because of your two comments on the experts-exchange thread. they earned you a -8 points each.

Ok I get it. Just looked here. http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html looks liek people have been down voting my stuff. Fair enough.

Ok so now I know how the karma got knocked down... but I'm not exactly sure that comment deserves -16 is there a policy against swearing or something?

Swearing is generally tolerated if it's not excessive. No need to censor yourself by obscuring the letters though.

I don't think the comments deserved -8 each (-8 is the most something can be down modded), but the downvoters (rightfully, in my opinion) thought those comments didn't add much to the discussion.

I agree. A lot of folks come to HN expecting it to be like digg/reddit/et al and comment as such only to be downvoted. It's just a different culture, I think. As the saying goes, "Lurk moar" until you figure it out.

And karma doesn't matter BTW so don't worry about it.

Experts exchange thread? I can't even find that can you show me the link? (Thx for the answer by the way)

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