The bummer is that 'extreme position' posts on hacker news attract lots of up votes; moderate ones not so much. So it's basically a training system to encourag

The bummer is that 'extreme position' posts on hacker news attract lots of up votes; moderate ones not so much. So it's basically a training system to encourage people to comment like this (remember; you need 500+ karma to down vote, so for many people, you can only ignore or up vote; therefore, all you see for a post is upvotes). :/