> Also, I've said a bunch of very non-PC things here and they don't always get downvotes. Again, these comments end up with a large number of upvotes. HN as a

> Also, I've said a bunch of very non-PC things here and they don't always get downvotes. Again, these comments end up with a large number of upvotes. HN as a whole is pretty good about that. It's the initial downvoting that is confusing to me. Why is the voting in the first ~5 minutes so different from later voting on these types of comments? jlokier came up with a possible explanation, but I'm not fully convinced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543147