[vacri]

This complaining about 'first [two] comments' is getting tiresome. The comment ordering swings around a lot, especially when the article is fresh, and doesn't necessarily reflect number of upvotes - for example, right now in my feed, the top comment is '0 minutes' old and your comment is 36 minutes old.

Clearly there's more to comment ordering than karma - I find it hard to believe that in less than 60 seconds, a comment is posted, then the page is refreshed enough times by enough viewers to find the fresh karmaless comment, who then upvote it in time for me to load it on my pageview.

In short, stop it with these "top comment(s) = HN hivemind" whines.

[plorkyeran]

I don't think I've ever seen a top-level comment complaining about the top comment actually be referring to the comment that's at the top when I read it. In fact, the complaint is usually either downvoted to negative or above the comment it's complaining about.

[userbinator]

The comment ordering swings around a lot, especially when the article is fresh

Also when it's a controversial subject like diversity/racism.