[lanna]

Why am I being downvoted for providing useful information? I don't understand HN...

[brown9-2]

Probably because you say to edit /etc/hosts but not what the content should be.

[tedunangst]

Is it hard to guess? The output of grep isn't a hint?

[PeCaN]

…except they did though, at least if you've sshed into github at some point (which I think nearly everyone has).

[oldmanjay]

If you're attempting to understand the behavior of individual users of HN as a collective, I can assure you that your initial principles are hampering you greatly.

[daenney]

Not sure if people aren't OK with the content but you've posted it twice, which is not really cool with most people or the guidelines.

Also probably the "hijacking top comment" part.

The other occurrence being here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12760156

[razster]

May not be HN doing the downvotes my friend.