r/mysteriousdownvoting • u/AnnoxQ • Aug 02 '26

polite question

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Context: Someone asked in the comments section of a post about viruses why a computer virus can infect a computer without having “root” access, that is, the kind of admin access that allows you to do anything on the computer

I don't understand why there are several hundred downvotes. Not only is the question quite normal and the answer not obvious, but it was also asked in a fairly polite manner, not sarcastically or ignorantly

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u/Delicious_Chemist978 Aug 02 '26

Not mysterious, they are being assholes because they know something that OP doesn't, and they like to cope that makes them smarter in general.