On HN, one is not supposed to comment on being downvoted: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring readin

On HN, one is not supposed to comment on being downvoted: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." Past attempts to exclude political discussion from HN reflect a belief that, somehow, what Silicon Valley does can be fully understood without recourse to political thought. The reality is that the HN community harbours readers with a wide range of political views, and those readers can downvote people with whom they disagree with total impunity. It's not good for the quality of debate, to say the least.