Historically, hn etiquette is that it's fine to downvote for disagreement. This came from pg himself. That said, while he hasn't posted here for a long time, t

Historically, hn etiquette is that it's fine to downvote for disagreement. This came from pg himself. That said, while he hasn't posted here for a long time, this is still in the guidelines: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html