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dfranke
on March 28, 2007
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Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / q...
One decent approach is to create two comments with instructions to vote one up and the other down, so you stay karma-neutral. So you need a total of 1+2n comments for a poll with n options. Like so:
Do you think this is a good idea?
(Vote this like you would an ordinary comment)
dfranke
on March 28, 2007
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Vote this
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for no.
dfranke
on March 28, 2007
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Vote this
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dfranke
on March 29, 2007
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Sigh. The sum of the scores on my four comments is now 6 and yesterday it was 3 (should always be 4). Apparently this is a bad idea.
davidw
on March 28, 2007
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Another approach is to let PG take care of it and get back to working on something that matters, whatever that may be;-)
dfranke
on March 28, 2007
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Vote this
down
for no.
dfranke
on March 28, 2007
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Vote this
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Do you think this is a good idea?
(Vote this like you would an ordinary comment)