[ljf]

Sorry to be off topic here... but this is why I don't understand HN sometimes - the post above isn't nasty, augmentative, hurtful or 'bad' in any way, but instead of people responding to the poster they've downvoted him.

Isn't downvoting for removing bad content, not trying to silence someone you don't agree with?

Thoughts/comments?

(edit - post is no longer showing as greyed out/downvoted - but still, any comments?)

[ugh]

There will always be idiots who downvote great comments. I have on occasion been such an idiot myself (it happens). I wouldn’t let me bother by that, it usually all works out in the end. (Remember: It can take only a single person to grey out a comment.)