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by chiefalchemist
1612 days ago
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Welcome to HN. An early comment goes off target and too many others follow. But we're all intelligence free-thinkers, yes? But then make an unpopular observation on the aryicle / topic and you get down-voted. Humans are "complicated", to put it kindly. p.s. Yes, I senses the irony. |
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Isn't that tautological?
Anyway, it's also not true as a general rule. The comments I see net-downvoted on HN are ones that either contain falsehoods and/or are poorly (often "rantily") written. I've seen many comments about a topic generally downvoted because they fit that pattern, but comments that express the same POV but avoid falsehoods and are reasonably written end up without a net negative.
If you're going to have votes, some things will get net-downvoted. There's no way around that - people have different opinions and scoring systems, and some comments will do poorly with some people.