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peachypie- when I first read the post I thought what I posted above^, that shadowclaw was saying "my situation is looking better than yours", and I downvoted it. I read it again because I was surprised that anyone would say something comparative like that and I realized that I had misunderstood shadowclaw. She was simply updating us on her situation as she had been doing the last few posts. I felt bad for downvoting so quickly, but I am confused as to how it accomplished -5 rep...I th...

^it cut me off! The last part of my post said I thought I made a dumb mistake and I don't understand why 4 other people disliked it (unless they misinterpreted it the way I did)

^I think crowd behavior/priming, maybe?! If you see a post with a couple of downvotes, you probably are going to interpret it using that info, maybe in a negative way. Plus, if you see a post with like 5 downvotes, it's a lot easier to go along and add one yourself