I stopped caring about these things at all. When you need to speak up, you just do it without thinking about downvoting. Otherwise HN will just become another e

I stopped caring about these things at all. When you need to speak up, you just do it without thinking about downvoting. Otherwise HN will just become another echo chamber, and that would be really bad for everyone. By the way, it always seemed to me that by civilized discussion once can learn the opponent's point of view and maybe even reach a compromise, but it seems HN works in a different way, hiding downvoted posts. When I expand them, I'm often surprised to see they're not spam nor offensive content, but just statements many people don't agree with.