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Sounds like someone may be downvote-botting you. Or just brigading. You might report it to HN. I've definitely seen the latter recently. Last week there was a
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
Sounds like someone may be downvote-botting you. Or just brigading. You might report it to HN.
I've definitely seen the latter recently. Last week there was a post about Snopes' current legal troubles, and an argument started about whether Snopes was politically neutral or not. For the first hour or so, everyone who implied that Snopes was anything but rabidly left-wing was downvoted well into the grey, then mostly rose back up with time. It very much looked like someone had multiple accounts, or multiple friends with accounts, and was downvote-bombing everyone who disagreed with them.
- archi42 7y agoMaybe it's just that people have strong opinions and/or feel lightly triggered for some topics? (Also TLC here; and no, did not downvote you:P)
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIn isolation, that's very possible. In practice, like ryandrake, I've been seeing comments on certain topics get mass-downvoted almost immediately and then slowly trend back upward. If it was just that HN readers in general disagree with me, I wouldn't expect such an identifiable and repeating pattern. (Also, TLC?)