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How and Why I Journal

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Re: How and Why I Journal

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post #2

-4 points on this submission? What? How did that happen? I've never seen it go negative.

Do a get a biscuit or something for somehow managing this? Interestingly on the Harmonic client on my Android phone it is claiming -10 points. Very odd.

Hacker News uses the D&D 2e ruleset. You’re doing great… if you want everyone to miss your post.

Re: How and Why I Journal

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post #12

Not sure why, but when I clicked on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN home page it led to the post we're currently on ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 ), but I think it should have led here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 A bug!?

Same

Re: How and Why I Journal

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post #12

Not sure why, but when I clicked on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN home page it led to the post we're currently on ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 ), but I think it should have led here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 A bug!?

that is normal behavior, clicking on the 'comments' link would lead you here

Re: How and Why I Journal

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's generic, but I wouldn't say there are any obvious LLM patterns. Unless I'm missing something?

“This isn’t just a supposition — I have proof!” was one I noticed at a glance. Also the many bulleted lists.

Re: How and Why I Journal

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post #2

-4 points on this submission? What? How did that happen? I've never seen it go negative.

My theory is either fudging the display (add/remove votes to prevent people from knowing the real count), or there’s a secret API that some bot found and exploited.

Or maybe it uses negative points when it detects bad actors voting/commenting on it? Just spitballing of course.

Re: How and Why I Journal

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post #12

Not sure why, but when I clicked on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN home page it led to the post we're currently on ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 ), but I think it should have led here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 A bug!?

that is normal behavior, clicking on the 'comments' link would lead you here

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Re: How and Why I Journal

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Responding to the actual content of the post… :P

Starting a long term commitment like journaling isn’t that hard. Just write something. There are a million apps and special notebooks to make it as easy as possible. I often hear people say staring is easy, maintaining is hard. Maintaining is also easy. Journaling doesn’t get harder with time. We often just underestimate how little your future self will care or value the same things current you does. It’s true that life gets in the way or a busy period will knock you out of your new habits. But starting again is still easy. Maintaining a journaling practice for a long time isn’t really that hard, it’s just hard to keep caring.

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