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Thank you for a good point. Would you please look into who is down-voting the heck out of me? I've been here for years and enjoy the good times. What is making

• kelnos 9y ago
  Meta-discussion in articles is generally discouraged and considered off-topic. Downvoting is pretty common of comments that question why an article is on the site or on the front page. If you don't agree that an article should be here, there's a "flag" link for that. No need for discussion; all that does is detract from the people who do think the article belongs here and want to have an interesting discussion about the article itself, and view comments such as yours as noise. None of this has anything to do with people being "touchy"[0]; we just want to keep comments that further discussion of the article at the top, and off-topic meta discussion out of the way. [0] I really dislike characterization of most moderation actions with such emotionally-charged language. The vast majority of my downvotes involve little to no emotion at all.
• jasonlotito 9y ago
  There are a number of individuals who will downvote meta comments like this. I, for example, almost always blindly downvote any comment complaining about down votes. The reason is usually fairly simple: it's usually not a worthwhile discussion and off-topic, and I want to strongly discourage that sort of behavior. If you don't think something should be on HN, flag it and leave it at that.