No, they could still have chosen to post it, even if they went along with that story.

My point was that there is no need to prepare a defence against downvoters, that too, up front. Not needed at all. Why is their opinion important to the OP? They can have their opinions, he can have his opinion of the same matter. What's the problem? The problem is only if one thinks that HN karma is important. It's totally unimportant.

>he can have his opinion

he or she (or they), sorry.

Karma is unimportant, but downvotes fade away the comment. There is little point in making a comment that will disappear anyway, since no one will see it.

>Karma is unimportant, but downvotes fade away the comment.

So what? IMO, HN comments are also unimportant.

In fact, HN is also unimportant. I said that here on HN recently.

Jeez. Does anyone think HN is important in the real world?

In the HN world, HN may be important (and even then, only to some), but then it is an echo chamber.

>There is little point in making a comment that will disappear anyway, since no one will see it.

Maybe. Maybe not. Do you rate the importance or value of your comments by the number of people who see them?

>There is little point in making a comment that will disappear anyway, since no one will see it.

So what? So comment anyway, without bothering about it disappearing, just to express yourself, or refrain from commenting if the disappearing of your comment is so important to you.

That makes sense.

Why are you here, though?

Not sure of your meaning, but maybe you're confusing unimportant with uninteresting? HN may be unimportant, but it is (sometimes) interesting, because of those very comments. Go figure (pun intended).

>That makes sense.

First say which of my above statements you refer to.

Until then I cannot meaningfully reply to your question:

>Why are you here, though?

Also, why should I not be here? You have any problem with it?

See what I did there?

> First say which of my above statements you refer to.

Nothing in particular.

> Also, why should I not be here? You have any problem with it?

Not at all.

You might be reading too much into my comment, though.

Dude:

>>First say which of my above statements you refer to.

>Nothing in particular.

>You might be reading too much into my comment, though.

I cannot be reading too much into your comment if you say that you refer to nothing in particular (out of my statements).

QED.

Be logical, like Spock:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy

kthxbye :)

> Karma is unimportant, but downvotes fade away the comment.

Preemptive defense against downvotes is a good way to attract them, so that's another reason not to do it.

>so that's another reason not to do it.

Unless one doesn't care about downvotes, because, you know, one is not a slave to convention.