I can’t really put my finger on it, but I think there’s a kind of sandbagging going on on vote-weighted social media sites, where folks in favor of the status q

I can’t really put my finger on it, but I think there’s a kind of sandbagging going on on vote-weighted social media sites, where folks in favor of the status quo make really incongruous or non sequitur statements as a kind of red herring bullet sponge for corrections, because they may suspect that the good corrections will get downranked by proxy when their own comment gets downvoted. I see similar things in sports, where leading competitors intentionally lower their performance in qualifying rounds so that they get a better seed advantage and easier competition going forward in the bracket. Have you seen this before on HN or online generally? I’m seeing it more online lately.