> Comments sometimes get downvoted in the first minute. Making them invisible to other readers and pushing them down, like the example [0] above. All it takes

> Comments sometimes get downvoted in the first minute. Making them invisible to other readers and pushing them down, like the example [0] above. All it takes is, what, 2 or 3 downvotes to prevent thousands of other users from even seeing a comment? > These discussions are not one-sided—they're two-sided at least On this very page, there were only 2 comments for most of the time, without clicking "More": Yours, and the one favoring Epic. Any comments with an opposing view appeared briefly before being driven out in under a minute, again like that example [0]. > it's not clear what any technical changes could do to mitigate it. On Reddit, some communities hide karma scores for a specified amount of time. HN could do the same: Do not show the score and do not let the score affect a comment's visibility for N hours. That would at least ensure that every voice has a chance to be heard, and reduce the emotions which result from seeing yourself instantly downvoted if you don't agree with the louder voices. For spam and more severe violations, there's always the Flag button. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24314105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24314105