On: Please don't use hnreputation

[kirubakaran]

Have you ever had a negative karma score placed on a comment?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190451

( my memory is a gift and a curse ;) )

[adrianwaj → kirubakaran]

How did you find it? Well done.

PG's my hero, but how would you escape the negative sign below for a Google search so it works:

"-9 points by pg" site:news.ycombinator.com

I haven't had much success.

[kirubakaran → adrianwaj]

I searched in searchyc.com for pg blue as I remembered the comment that got down-voted. Also check this out : http://searchyc.com/user/pg?only=comments&sort=by_points... I didn't use this method earlier though.

[adrianwaj → kirubakaran]

Yes, just saw it, thx. How bizarre, for an item about Arc it was very taxing on Paul. Perhaps it just shows how no one really gets it, and why bother explaining if you do: those who know don't tell.

[kirubakaran → adrianwaj]

I think I too voted that comment down, as I felt that it was not addressing the intent/spirit of that person's question, however ill-formed it might be considered to be.

From your comment : Perhaps it just shows how no one really gets it, and why bother explaining if you do: those who know don't tell.

IMHO this is a dangerous attitude to have towards a disagreement, as it can cloud your thinking.

[adrianwaj → kirubakaran]

Quite. It's one half of a Zen proverb: a person cannot be told the truth- they have to realize it internally.

[kirubakaran → adrianwaj]

So if that proverb is a truth, why are you telling it to me? :-) That is just a statement that Zen monks used when they were logically cornered, I guess. I used to use it on my sister when I was a kid: "You won't know. Even if I explain, you can't comprehend." I think I used this to get her to trade her real coins for some "wax coins" that I made.