Tell HN: I want my karma points back

by banned_man on 4/23/2009, 9:57 PM with 5 comments

I was mercilessly downvoted for a joke that at least 9 people didn't get. Here's the post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576077

Just to spell it out for the people who failed to get the allusion: it's the victory theme from Final Fantasy. It plays when you beat the bad guys. It's not an off-topic spam link. On the contrary, it's totally appropriate for a thread about falling real estate prices.

I don't usually care about getting downvoted, especially when I know that I deserve it, which is most of the time, but this rash of downvotes was just ridiculous and embarrassing to the site. I was downvoted to -8 for a quality post, then downvoted further when I explained the allusion.

  • by dkokelley on 4/23/2009, 10:05 PM

    From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

  • by paulgb on 4/23/2009, 10:03 PM

    Dude, let it go.

  • by rms on 4/23/2009, 10:07 PM

    It wasn't that funny

  • by hs on 4/23/2009, 10:14 PM

    i haven't downvote anything in the past year or so because it stiffles my creativity ... downvoter role fits the admin-type ... you know, the uncreative ones

    don't bother explaining, argue with an idiot, you become one ... argue with uncreative, you become boring