Something I like about HN is that down-voted posts will often come back from the grave. For some reason voters have a lot of sympathy. Back on reddit, people u

Something I like about HN is that down-voted posts will often come back from the grave. For some reason voters have a lot of sympathy. Back on reddit, people use votes as a way to signal to each other what to believe in: instinctively, you upvote popular comments and downvote unpopular comments. It's really the first few voters that decide what people see.