[onreact-com]

I'm just experiencing "hostility to newcomers" on HN. My comments have been repeatedly voted down for no apparent reason. I just can't imagine people loving nuclear weapons and such so why vote me down for speaking out in favor of pacifism.

[TrevorJ]

Not true. After reading through your past comments on this site as I have, you will see that the only times you have been downvoted are when you bring political views into conversations where it is almost entirely off-topic.

Plenty of your comments in other threads have been upvoted, so laying the blame for your treatment on the rest of the community here is disingenuous.

[onreact-com]

It's not off topic to speak out against militarism on a post that is cheerleading the military for being hilarious. I know people in the US love guns and are proud to "liberate" countries in the middle east but in Europe people think differently. I was surprised to see militarism being hailed in a tech and business oriented social news community. You don't want my political opinion stop promoting the army.

[callahad]

Hold on. You've been here for almost two years. You registered 8 months and 11 days after News.YC launched. You are in no way a newcomer.

PS: Cool, an excuse to use Wolfram Alpha! It does calendar computations quite nicely. "Feb 19, 2007 to X days ago" to figure out when someone joined relative to the launch of News.YC.

[onreact-com]

Yeah, I registered two years ago and clicked five times. After that I've been here just once. Then I started contributing a week ago. So I am indeed a newcomer.

[natrius]

If no one knew you're a newcomer until you told us, there's no way for this article to be pertinent to your perceived slights.

[onreact-com]

It's more the other way around: No one knew me so they assumed I'm new. Don't you ever look at the author of a submission or comment to recognize the nick?

[anamax]

> I just can't imagine people loving nuclear weapons and such so why vote me down for speaking out in favor of pacifism.

Because HN doesn't reward cluelessness even if it is riding a unicorn. Spouting false choices, attributing strawmen, and self-righteousness doesn't help.