It's generally not polite to lead comments with "you don't understand what you're saying", but I'll explain myself. The main point here is that journalistic in

It's generally not polite to lead comments with "you don't understand what you're saying", but I'll explain myself. The main point here is that journalistic integrity is dead, which is still true. While seeing a spike of blog traffic isn't directly hearsay, it's still just drawing inferences, and pretty unprofessional. He's also acting like a redditor and complaining about downvotes for a volatile subject- which tends to be mass upvoted or downvoted depending on the crowd. A very reasonable explanation for thousands of downvotes would be if this post was found on a pro-apple forum or something; in fact, applying Occam's razor, a directed effort from Samsung HQ would more likely draw maybe 50 downvotes. To jump to conclusions and call conspiracy just from witnessing downvotes on his site is pretty silly. I'd like to point out for the entire second half of the post the author literally reposts a blog comment, containing things like "Samsung is not well liked by Koreans". That's a pretty accurate description of hearsay.