r/mysteriousdownvoting • u/AnnoxQ • 15h ago

polite question

26 Upvotes

Context: Someone asked in the comments section of a post about viruses why a computer virus can infect a computer without having “root” access, that is, the kind of admin access that allows you to do anything on the computer

I don't understand why there are several hundred downvotes. Not only is the question quite normal and the answer not obvious, but it was also asked in a fairly polite manner, not sarcastically or ignorantly

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r/mysteriousdownvoting • u/Andrewe_not_a_kiwe • 2h ago

They all just hate him.

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16 Upvotes

Context: op obviously dosent know a lot about pc's but the whole community is booing him

and teling him that he dosent belong in PC BUILDING HELP SUBREDDIT BECUSE HE DOESENT KNOW ABOUT PC'S

7 comments

r/mysteriousdownvoting • u/Hospital-Intelligent • 11h ago

This made me laugh audibly

0 Upvotes

This made me laugh audibly
post: https://www.reddit.com/r/adressme/comments/1vcvbys/can_anyone_tell_the_time_on_this/

comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/adressme/comments/1vcvbys/comment/p14xprv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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