Yeah I don't think I'm complaining here. But pointing to certain dynamics. There is a lot of the groupthink on HN, and this might be one of the mechanisms supp

Yeah I don't think I'm complaining here. But pointing to certain dynamics. There is a lot of the groupthink on HN, and this might be one of the mechanisms suppressing debating certain ideas. Downvoting definitely surpresses well written contrarian arguments. It often kills the discussion by moving it down. On a personal note. It's fun to see a comment get a lot of votes, and also fun to see it get a lot of downvotes. But I'm not very emotionally invested into it.