[dijit]

Apologies, it's frustrating watching my comment go from +5 to -2 in a handful of seconds.

Not that I'm into karma farming (or that it even means anything), but it irritates me to think that people are gaming the discourse here.

There's an implicit groupthink when it comes to seeing greyed out comments; to the point that people may (and do) think that the comment is non-factual or at the very least unpopular. This is especially true in subjects that are critical of Signal.

[nxor]

Unfortunately, many people work this way: "I don't like this, therefore it's false"

[Etheryte]

There's eight billion something humans on the planet, I think it's pretty okay if seven of them disagree with what you're saying.

[dijit]

Yeah.

Just weird that they all found my comment at the same time.

.. and it happens, every time, a slow build up of points, maybe some ups and downs, then suddenly it falls off a cliff. It's.. it's too perfect.

[Etheryte]

Quoting the guidelines [0], if you think that's really what's happening, you can try reaching out to the mods.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [e-mail] and we'll look at the data.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html