>so I don't understand the massive downvoting I'm curious about this too. Sure, I'm argumentative and sometimes post a bit too aggressively in my tone, but I'

>so I don't understand the massive downvoting I'm curious about this too. Sure, I'm argumentative and sometimes post a bit too aggressively in my tone, but I've had seemingly innocuous posts get down-voted within a minute or two of posting them. Normally I wouldn't care, but it seems like HN has an algorithm that punishes people who are consistently downvoted ("slow down"). It is possible to game that system?