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If possible could you tell me if i have been moderated? I lost 13 karma overnight and I am curious if my comments in the past 24 hours were in violation of foru

If possible could you tell me if i have been moderated? I lost 13 karma overnight and I am curious if my comments in the past 24 hours were in violation of forum policy. It feels as if ive been vindictively downvoted which as a relative newcomer is discouraging

grzm 9y ago
Looking at the comments you've posted recently, a couple of them have been flagged, and a couple others have been downvoted (based on seeing that they're various shades of gray). https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blackflame7000 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blackflame7000 They're all under this same submission, which is quite politically charged, which increases the likelihood that comments will be downvoted or flagged by HN members. I doubt you were moderated in the sense that the mods ('dang and 'sctb) did anything. I suspect it's all user action. Members downvote for all kinds of reasons (and vindictiveness can unfortunately be one of them). If you're concerned about downvotes, I recommend steering clear of politics on HN. While HN can be a great place for constructive discussion, some topics can be very difficult to discuss constructively and civilly. I hope this isn't not too discouraging. When I'm downvoted, I step back and try to determine why, keeping in mind the context and forum. Could I have phrased things better? Was I on-topic? Did I add meaningfully to the discussion? Was I writing from a position of trying to understand and be understood? Was I giving others in the discussion the benefit of the most charitable reading of their comments? If I honestly feel I did everything I could, then I chalk it up to someone downvoting for reasons I couldn't do anything about other than not commenting at all, and let it be.
- blackflame7000 9y ago
  Very appreciative of you taking the time to look into my situation and help me see the error of my ways. I was just shocked when posts that were at +5 suddenly were at -1. Its just kind of frustrating to have the karma of quality posts on hackernews centric material erased because someone has a different political view on a random political article. Best avoid posting on them altogether I suppose

grzm 9y ago

Looking at the comments you've posted recently, a couple of them have been flagged, and a couple others have been downvoted (based on seeing that they're various shades of gray). https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blackflame7000 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blackflame7000 They're all under this same submission, which is quite politically charged, which increases the likelihood that comments will be downvoted or flagged by HN members. I doubt you were moderated in the sense that the mods ('dang and 'sctb) did anything. I suspect it's all user action. Members downvote for all kinds of reasons (and vindictiveness can unfortunately be one of them). If you're concerned about downvotes, I recommend steering clear of politics on HN. While HN can be a great place for constructive discussion, some topics can be very difficult to discuss constructively and civilly. I hope this isn't not too discouraging. When I'm downvoted, I step back and try to determine why, keeping in mind the context and forum. Could I have phrased things better? Was I on-topic? Did I add meaningfully to the discussion? Was I writing from a position of trying to understand and be understood? Was I giving others in the discussion the benefit of the most charitable reading of their comments? If I honestly feel I did everything I could, then I chalk it up to someone downvoting for reasons I couldn't do anything about other than not commenting at all, and let it be.

blackflame7000 9y ago
Very appreciative of you taking the time to look into my situation and help me see the error of my ways. I was just shocked when posts that were at +5 suddenly were at -1. Its just kind of frustrating to have the karma of quality posts on hackernews centric material erased because someone has a different political view on a random political article. Best avoid posting on them altogether I suppose