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Legit curious about the down voting. If we're going to allow news like this to be posted, then what about my comment is not adding facts or to the conversation?
by erentz 6y ago
Legit curious about the down voting. If we're going to allow news like this to be posted, then what about my comment is not adding facts or to the conversation? Is it because of this line: "If this chills you and you don't want to see it progress, call your representatives and ask them to intervene to stop this."?
- philipkglass 6y agoI tried to upvote your parent comment earlier today but the action did nothing. Your karma did not increase. I was able to upvote it just now, though it's still in the gray. I have noticed that a minority of comments seem to be "locked" against voting for a certain period of time. I have previously found unvotable comments like yours, spotted them again hours later, and found that voting worked again. I haven't been able to spot any common patterns in these temporarily unvotable comments. I wonder if there is some sort of cooldown timer on voting for comments that have received heavy voting in both directions. I'm not entirely satisfied with that guess, because IIRC some unvotable comments I have encountered in the past appear to be anodyne and unlikely to have attracted prior vote controversy. There's also a limit on how frequently your votes will affect another user, but I hadn't voted on any of your other comments in the past day.
- nkurz 6y agoI upvoted to counter the downvotes, but I'd guess the downvotes were because you described what some people feel were legal arrests as "abducting people", and because you suggested the the DHS secretary sent in forces solely because of graffiti. Your point of view is legitimate, but others might legitimately disagree with it. I think just about everyone would agree with the "call your representatives" part.
- mercer 6y agoI strongly suggest you don't ask these questions. I upvoted your comment because I think it's worth being upvoted, but I'm generally a downvoter when I see that someone asks, regardless of how much I might agree with the comment, and I think I'm not the only one. I've been wondering if that's a good approach, but I mostly feel that it's a good principle to uphold the HN rules over whatever comment I might agree with, so I downvote comments that include complaints.