[encoderer]

You think it's that you mentioned a competitor? Most people have never heard of Arcimoto. I haven't. Had you written something informative and showed some honest enthusiasm for the company, nobody would've downvoted you.

Instead, you started it by taking a crap on Tesla which is 1) Not in the spirit of "HACKER news" that you just evoked in your defense and 2) a dumb thing to do if you care about down-votes when we all know there's a lot of Tesla fans here.

I suppose maybe you don't truly care about down-votes, which would make me wonder then why you're complaining about them.