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> Down votes are interesting when applied to a comment that's an answer to a direct question.

I suspect it's because your answer was indirect and had a fairly proselytizing tone. I found the information interesting, but it was a somewhat irritating read because it was inverted to demand attention, like a story, rather than being upfront. A better-received comment might have read more like:

"I used Clojure. This was mainly because it's my favorite language, so I could work faster in it, and because it has certain features which make debugging extremely fast. et cetera."



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