Shorter comments are more prone to misunderstanding—e.g. perhaps someone thought it was being snarky. In such cases someone else usually comes a long and gives a corrective upvote.

The HN guidelines ask you not to post about getting downvoted though: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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