[qrendel]

It appears a good portion of comments in this thread have been, many of them not obviously bad. HN seems to have developed a contingent of people who downvote anything they disagree with, without explaining why they disagree, and this thread is particularly heavy on them.

[Retric]

Many people down vote every post in a discussion if it seems off topic. Considering single day drops are the kind of thing you see plastered over CNN many people consider it off topic for HN.