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I think it's to do with the iPhone. I noticed this a long time ago on HN: any comment that could be interpreted as negative towards the iPhone was downvoted. Li

by 8ren 16y ago

I think it's to do with the iPhone. I noticed this a long time ago on HN: any comment that could be interpreted as negative towards the iPhone was downvoted. Like you, I couldn't understand it at first, but eventually concluded it was because of things like describing the iPhone as "underpowered" (compared to a desktop), even in a neutral, factual, discussing-the-engineering sense. My solution is to avoid iPhone-related threads or to not take them seriously, and to not comment in them (or if I must, to stress the iPhone positives explicitly). No, it's not a great solution. EDIT as predicted, this post got a downvote.

cskau 16y ago
I think you're onto something with that though. I also think it's probably much wider than just iPhone related. It's probably the good old cults all up in arms. /My personal experience/ from posting a comment with some again personal experience on linux laptops and why I though you didn't need a Mac to run linux got me downvoted to the negatives in a matter of minutes. I try and be fair, and I made myself clear that it was in fact an experience based opinion of mine, but alas. Surely I'm "just grumpy about it", but I really feel people were being unnecessarily flamy. I invite anyone to click through my username and judge for themselves. Lessons learned - there is a surprisingly large cultist segment on HN that will downvote opinions simply because they don't like them.