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It might have been a Russian :-) But implicit in your statement is that some people (Appalachians/visiting lawyers) are bigoted and maybe someone took offence

It might have been a Russian :-) But implicit in your statement is that some people (Appalachians/visiting lawyers) are bigoted and maybe someone took offence at that, or from your seeming too much "can't we all just get along?". Really you can't take individual downvotes as anything except cosmic background radiation emitted from twitter and people having a bad day. People become annoyed (enraged even) because they hit 0 and go grey. With the steady increase in HN commenters, the raw post should start at 3 at least, or votes should be rationals (3 up/4 down) and only start to impact at n=3.

alexfromapex 7y ago
The Russians was my first thought as well lol. I really like the cosmic background explanation it makes a lot of sense and can relate to having days like that where I’m grouchy and liable to downvote. I can see how some would get irritated from the sentiment of “why can’t we all just get along?” but that’s also super ironic and I think it’s what the article is trying to highlight as a problem in the current political universe.