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> Had a lot of karma collected, then a comment with different opinion against point of view of HN wasted it.

I was under the impression a comment couldn’t get you more than four negative points. Apparently that’s true for the comment itself but further downvotes keep subtracting from the user’s karma¹. I’m curious for the rationale.

If you’re willing to share I’d be interested on a ballpark figure of how much karma you had and what the comment was². Your case is the first I’ve heard of such a situation and seems quite extreme. I’m wondering why the comment wasn’t flagged, for example, which would have stopped downvotes.

I frequently see differing opinions on HN (one need only look at the AI discussions, with top comments both pro and against) so I’ve never been convinced by this idea of the HN hive mind / groupthink.

¹ https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

² Presumably we’re well past the point where it could get further downvotes.