It has since been heavily upvoted. The thing to do in such cases (i.e. when you notice an unfairly downvoted comment) is give it a corrective upvote and move on.
“Corrective upvote” as a term is pretty hilarious — makes it sound like you think my vote is the correct one that will right the previous wrong the bozo downvoter. Utter solipsism. In 30 years of community moderation on the internet, I’ve never needed that term before. Thanks.
Anyway, I want to talk to the people who somehow hate Canadians or who find the concept amusing. There are far more interesting ideas to be had there than in rehashing political debates in the rest of this topic.
> makes it sound like you think my vote is the correct one that will right the previous wrong the bozo downvoter.
Well yes, except for the definite article. Any upvote counteracts any downvote. If a downvote was bad then an upvote can be corrective by neutralizing its badness. I thought that was obvious, so it's interesting that you don't.
> people who somehow hate Canadians or who find the concept amusing
There's also a boring explanation for some otherwise weird downvotes: misclicks.
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