My earlier comment was downvoted in record time for stating the same, so I made a new post. What's the reason to have such a guideline? I suspect manipulative downvotes to silence my opinion. Otherwise, why not comment and correct my fallacies instead?
I mean it's explained pretty clearly in the second sentence.
> It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
People are here to talk about interesting topics. That you are being downvoted is not a very interesting topic to anyone but yourself. You pointing it out also isn't going to magically make the downvotes go away.
> I suspect manipulative downvotes to silence my opinion.
It takes 501 karma to unlock downvoting. People aren't here making dozens of accounts just to take away your fake internet points.
I have read plenty of threads where completely legitimate comments are downvoted to the point you cannot read them anymore, it is the same for other users' comments. This is not my personal ego trip. (and by the way, I make it a habit to always upvote those comments independent of content, just because I despise censorship through the backdoor)
The reason why it still should be allowed to talk about it is to hinder, or raise awareness of vote manipulation in the comments.
"it is boring" is not a logical explanation, but maybe that's just me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You also don't seem to have an earlier comment here that was being downvoted.