[rschmitty]

Reddit downvoting is ridiculous at times. People just downvote whenever they see something they don't like or disagree with.

For example, anyone that dislikes {lang} will just downvote any {lang} article

vs

Reading the {lang} article and downvoting it if it's just linkspam

[untog]

Hacker News isn't really that different- people flag the article instead of downvoting it, so it takes even fewer people to bury a story. It's happened more times than I can count.