Agreed, very similar experience. Once in a while I end up posting a comment that runs counter to the prevailing HN opinion in a given thread, and it would get d

Agreed, very similar experience. Once in a while I end up posting a comment that runs counter to the prevailing HN opinion in a given thread, and it would get downvoted. However, I put as much effort in those comments as I do in any other ones, as none of it is trolling or just attempts to be edgy, the comments try to fully abide by HN guidelines. With that in mind, I have never gotten flagged (unless i missed it somehow), despite definitely being downvoted for "unpopular" opinions before (especially in hot-topic US politics adjacent threads). I know that's just a sample size of 1, of course, and I don't doubt there are some who got flagged unjustly. But from my personal experience, it doesn't seem like a common scenario.