Nah, HN is reasonably healthy as far as I can tell. Sometimes things get flagged incorrectly, but usually within a few days issues get fixed. Sometimes you see

Nah, HN is reasonably healthy as far as I can tell. Sometimes things get flagged incorrectly, but usually within a few days issues get fixed. Sometimes you see a flurry of unneeded downvotes.. but scores don't matter much and things get worked out. My sarcastic comments generally score poorly, my helpful ones do well - which is about the desired outcome. The goal is not to prevent inflammatory takes or have scores reflect some ideal of values, just to keep the signal above the noise threshold. I still get odd emails from other HNers and still have interesting conversations.