The reason you won't get a response to such questions (and follow-up comments about downvotes get flagged and downvoted) is because discussion of voting is agai

The reason you won't get a response to such questions (and follow-up comments about downvotes get flagged and downvoted) is because discussion of voting is against the HN Guidelines[1]: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html