That’s certainly why I downvoted it. The OP invited readers to make a guess, and Eneasz’s comment made it much harder to make a guess before seeing the answer.
>The OP invited readers to make a guess, and Eneasz’s comment made it much harder to make a guess before seeing the answer.
Not the biggest of deals, but this is worded such that it sounds like the OP’s author and Eneasz are two different people. The OP specifically says “answer in a comment”, so I didn’t read the comments until I’d thought about it and guessed, which seemed fine to me.
Huh. I … hadn’t noticed that Eneasz was the OP, and I had interpreted “answer in comment below” as “why don’t you put your answers in comments” rather than “I am going to put the answer in a comment”.
I still think that putting the answer in a highly-visible comment was a bad thing to do, and the fact that that comment is substantially downvoted now gets it auto-hidden which is probably a good thing for that reason—but I am upvoting the original post and looking for something else of Eneasz’s to upvote by way of compensation.
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I am super curious why this was downvoted.
Because it’s spoilers? … and not in rot13.
That’s certainly why I downvoted it. The OP invited readers to make a guess, and Eneasz’s comment made it much harder to make a guess before seeing the answer.
>The OP invited readers to make a guess, and Eneasz’s comment made it much harder to make a guess before seeing the answer.
Not the biggest of deals, but this is worded such that it sounds like the OP’s author and Eneasz are two different people. The OP specifically says “answer in a comment”, so I didn’t read the comments until I’d thought about it and guessed, which seemed fine to me.
Huh. I … hadn’t noticed that Eneasz was the OP, and I had interpreted “answer in comment below” as “why don’t you put your answers in comments” rather than “I am going to put the answer in a comment”.
I still think that putting the answer in a highly-visible comment was a bad thing to do, and the fact that that comment is substantially downvoted now gets it auto-hidden which is probably a good thing for that reason—but I am upvoting the original post and looking for something else of Eneasz’s to upvote by way of compensation.
Ah, if it was intentional I can just retract my upvote.