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@akitaonrails,
I found the piece to be quite cogent, I'm curious as to what you found wrong that prompted your down vote. I enjoy your blog so I was curious if you'd mind sharing.

As a follow-on to this question, I'm curious as to why he posted a comment on my blog, but then voted it down. A down vote presumably means "don't read" but then why read through it and comment on it?

I can't speak for him, but I know I don't vote for something up or down unless I read it. And I know that just because I disagree with something, it doesn't mean I can't learn something from a friendly disagreement about a tech point. Its a good way to learn or to at least sharpen you're reasoning.

It's a limitation of dzone, which I believe they are aware of, that down voting is vague and could mean different things to different people, even different things to the same person at different. It can mean "I don't like this article", "I don't agree with the content of this article"; or "that &*%&^ took my lunch money when I was six, so they're never going to get an upvote from me" or sadly, "that article has a buzzword that I always vote down"

I sent him an email to ask him why since I found your article to be match with much of my experience, particularly when working on cross application databases.

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