HN sometimes suffers from the emperor-has-no-clothes syndrome. I, too, like to post on several topics here which the wider community tends to ignore because the

HN sometimes suffers from the emperor-has-no-clothes syndrome. I, too, like to post on several topics here which the wider community tends to ignore because their conclusions go against the grain of the community's most widely held beliefs. I've noticed that, if I raise contrarian views in comments, those are swiftly downvoted, sometimes to oblivion. If I post a story which can't itself be downvoted, instead it's ignored. This is one of the risks one takes when speaking out against the tragedy of the commons. Perhaps South Park [0] said it best, the crowd often chooses to "kill the wise one." [0] http://southpark.cc.com/clips/t6qyw9/kill-the-wise-one http://southpark.cc.com/clips/t6qyw9/kill-the-wise-one