> This always poisons the tone of a comment. Just like, "I know this will get downvoted": You should just state your opinion without proactively casting yoursel

> This always poisons the tone of a comment. Just like, "I know this will get downvoted": You should just state your opinion without proactively casting yourself as the minority voice. It feels like self-pity, and at the same time implicitly colors disagreement with you as dog-piling or talking-down. I wish it weren't necessary, but it's pretty much the only way to get a minority opinion any traction. It's primes the few who do agree with you to preemptively upvote before the mob of downvotes sets in, and it does also work to reduce the number of reactive downvotes that get added. I try to avoid "I know this will get downvoted" because it's too meta, but yes, it accomplishes the same thing. > Is that even a minority opinion? Glorifying assassination should make everybody uncomfortable, no? That's a big, central part of the point of glorifying his crime. In the comments section of HN, it absolutely has been. Every Mangione thread is filled with his fans, and every comment that critiques the glorification of what he did is mobbed by them.