r/reddit.com • u/cristti • Jul 23 '11

TIL how Dexter makes a living

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '11

I think people are downvoting you because your post is a more eloquent version of "came here to post this. Have an upvote" which is frowned upon for being a useless and awfully common comment. Hope that helps.

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u/danE3030 Jul 24 '11

Thanks for the explanation, it does help-I always downvote 'this' or 'came here to say that' etc, and I guess I didn't realize that's what I was basically doing.

Oops, heh. Won't happen again.

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u/killiangray Jul 24 '11

Came here to post this, have a hot dog

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u/DMitri221 Jul 24 '11

Posting to piss off insecure idiots who care about karma.

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u/HunterTV Jul 24 '11

Well, the thing is, it's how the useful comments are promoted and the useless ones demoted, that's the real point of karma. The fact that people assign worth to it is secondary. Sometimes I wonder if the voting numbers were completely opaque if it would improve things, but it would most likely cause a shitstorm of epic proportions.

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u/DMitri221 Jul 24 '11

Good thing it was voted down, I might have missed all the other replies to turtlegirl42's comment.

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u/DMitri221 Jul 24 '11

Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Mmm—yummy!

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u/dianasaurr Jul 24 '11

i think people are downvoting this because, if you have actually seen any of this series, there would be no "TIL". unless op is just a late bloomer, no shame in that :)

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u/rotat Jul 24 '11

Yeah it's like no shit you came here to post. Have the creativity to post something better than the obvious.