I've managed to be upvoted for saying conservative things more often than not here. You do have to pick your battles a bit and be careful how you say things, av

I've managed to be upvoted for saying conservative things more often than not here. You do have to pick your battles a bit and be careful how you say things, avoid responding to hostile vitriol with more of the same, be mindful of what will likely play well with a libertarian-ish hacker crowd, etc, but it can be done. I've also seen some weird post score swings, like mildly pro-Trump things going down to -3, then back up to +3. We know there's a lot of orgs out there actively trying to influence social media, I wonder if any of them have downvote farms or bots pointed at HN? I'd be disappointed to learn that real HN regulars just reflexively downvote like that. I don't see the suspect downvotes that grandparent sees though. Maybe gone already?