HN is really becoming such an insufferable community. How did my previous comment deserve a downvote? This is a legitimate question, that's how fucking science

HN is really becoming such an insufferable community. How did my previous comment deserve a downvote? This is a legitimate question, that's how fucking science work, you use control groups to isolate variables and reach conclusions. Maybe the harassment has nothing to do with gender but with the medium writers choose, or their topics, or whatever.