[JodieBenitez]

from the guidelines:

    Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting

Also:

    Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Well... sorry then :-)

And final:

    Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

[circuit10]

> It never does any good

I do feel like it can help to break the herd mentality thing of "if it's already downvoted, downvote it more" by making people think about why they've done it

[istjohn]

I don't particularly care what the venture capitalists who own this website want me to do. Nor is it surprising that they don't want politics here. Political consciousness can only be bad news for the uber-wealthy.