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Can anyone explain what is happening with the downvotes on this post? Almost every single top level comment has been downvoted to almost disappearing.
by vecinu 6y ago
Can anyone explain what is happening with the downvotes on this post? Almost every single top level comment has been downvoted to almost disappearing.
- zrail 6y agoThere are a few different contingents that frequent HN and bother to look at the comments on posts like this, which results in equal numbers of downvotes on wildly opposing top level comments.
- dang 6y ago1. The community is divided because society is divided. Each side downvotes the other. 2. HN users tend to downvote tedious, repetitive flamewar.
- arkitaip 6y agoHN has had a problem with bigotry and white supremacy for a long time. That's why.
- alienhuman 6y agoDisagreement over the role of social media companies in our society = white supremacy. Got it.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- MBCook 6y agoThere is a large contingent on HM that doesn’t seem to want to discuss anything that’s related to politics in the smallest way, no matter how directly on topic it is for technology. So you’ll find stories like this one that should be pretty high up which have been flagged to death and no longer appear on the main page.