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Confused why this got -4 on it?

Is linking to graphs about the issue frowned upon here?

When submitted, it looked quite relevant to the discussion within the minutes beforehand.


Likely the same reason that a few other comments were downvoted: there wasn't an actual DDOS attack.

Additionally, your linked graph doesn't actually contain any context or resources that could be used to verify it. It is in fact an uncredited photo from [0] which was refuted in the children of a few other comments[1,2] that were available at the time of your post

[0]: https://www.digitalattackmap.com/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533054

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533510




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