> I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted so much, the point is definitely interesting I have observed a `shark smelling blood` thing going sometimes on HN. I

> I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted so much, the point is definitely interesting I have observed a `shark smelling blood` thing going sometimes on HN. If the timing is right and if a child comment in an upvoted parent that is at the top of post gets one or two downvotes then it has some visibility and then it attracts downvote clicks. If there are 4 or 5 other children they get ignored (I believe the last one gets all the downvote because people parse from top to bottom and only bother interacting with first or last elements... so some posts will get buried while others will sail through) shrug, it might be all in my head though ;).