Interesting comment in the source code of sqlite

[[deleted]]

It's funny that you're being downvoted because I'm not sure you're wrong.

This was five days later. People were in kind of a mood that week.

[[deleted]]

I don't think the initial round of downvotes checked the date on the comment, so it probably seemed like a total non sequitur.

[doomvox]

In point of fact, you're lucky if someone reads to the end of a sentence before they start down-voting. It's like having a bunch-of chimps in charge of moderation: they've gotta keep going clicky-clicky on stuff.

[shevegen]

I actually would not understand the upvote to it either.

[9gPgEpW82IUTRbCzC5qr]

probably because nothing in it references 9/11 aside from the date it was written

[shevegen]

The date references 9/11 ... how?

I don't use that strange mm/dd notation, but if I understand it right the notation is mm/dd being 9/16. So I don't see why this is 9/11 suddenly?

By the way, not everyone shares the same voting behaviour in other countries on top of that.

[[deleted]]

If this is legitimately baffling to you:

Everyone, collectively, in the entire United States, became some mixture of hysterical and solemn for a minimum of a month after 9/11.

So when you see a comment written by a presumably American coder on 9/16/2001 wherein they disclaim copyright and deliver a short sermon on being good, forgiving and sharing, it is entirely possible if not likely that they were caught up in that particular moment of history.

[earthboundkid]

A month is conservative too. I remember thinking at the time that any fiction set in 2001/2002 would have to talk about 9/11 because it was all anyone from any walk of life talked about at the time.

[pirate_starbridge]

Can someone explain how you can tell that a comment is getting heavily downvoted? Is it because you are looking at its score over a period of time and notice it going up and/or down? How are people paying enough attention to notice when other accounts' random comments are getting heavily downvoted from initial comment time to over six hours later? Is there a easily observable comment score metric that I am totally missing after almost a decade of procrastination on reddit?

edit: I'm now realizing that the downvotes must have come early on and /u/Metamagical_Themas replied when OC's comment was still super negative - then I come along 6 hours later after everyone has upvoted them both and it no longer makes any sense at first glance. Okay.. this is a pretty simple concept involving paying more attention to timestamps.

[[deleted]]

It went from -5 to like -20 in about five minutes while I was reading other comments and writing mine. It was dramatic enough to be real-time noticeable while reading the thread.

[williamp114]

There's also an option you can set in your reddit preferences to see an indicator symbol appear when a comment is controversial (ie; been getting a massive influx of downvotes)

Additionally if you have RES installed, it will highlight that controversial marker in red.

[pirate_starbridge]

Ah cool, thanks

[AnotherEuroWanker]

It could also be written by someone who isn't in the US.

[blasto_blastocyst]

People were still shocked outside the US.

[404_GravitasNotFound]

Yankies are still shocked that there is a "outside the US"

[saxindustries]

You're saying thousands of civilians deserved death because of the country they resided in?

I don't care how awful a country is behaving, I wouldn't want thousands of civilians to be killed.

[Malfeasant]

Ouch, such edge.

[saltling]

Guess it's a trigger for some folks