>I'd actually like to see HN try this for a day. Meh, HN already has hidden functionality that they don't tell users about, and honestly it feels like psycholo

>I'd actually like to see HN try this for a day. Meh, HN already has hidden functionality that they don't tell users about, and honestly it feels like psychological torture. For example, all of my posts lose points after posting. For a long time, I thought a bot was following me and downvoting me. No, I was just being tortured by dang, feeling like I was crazy for all of my posts receiving down votes. Unless I consistently only post things that subscribe to the norm, I will be in a points deficit. I will never be able to downvote posts and participate in the community at large. I've effectively been cancelled, mostly for having different opinions and partly for responding to trolls in an unhelpful way. I'm working on the second part, but I don't think that's the problem. I'm not interested in trying to psychologically harm people, especially in a time when social activities only really exist on the internet.