This is a mature community so downvotes often mean: 1) Your comment is meta. Meta comments - however useful - should be below all comments discussing article c

This is a mature community so downvotes often mean: 1) Your comment is meta. Meta comments - however useful - should be below all comments discussing article content. In some cases we downvote if it happened to bubble up. 2) When a point is no longer relevant, it makes sense to push it to the bottom of the stack. That is not a judgment on its merits. > I will never complain about HN titles again because people just can't understand that both HN titles Have a little more self-confidence about your contributions. If they're useful, just walk away knowing you did the right thing. You don't need to defend yourself as the veracity of it will make itself known given time.