It's an interesting phenomenon that occurs on HN. It's fairly easy to explain. Each HN user that sees this post has a chance to view and comment on the post dep

It's an interesting phenomenon that occurs on HN. It's fairly easy to explain. Each HN user that sees this post has a chance to view and comment on the post depending on his interests. A Python developer would be likely to simply skip this post, while a Go developer would be highly likely to view this post as he has an interest in using his Go knowledge on more platforms. That means we have a highly skewed distribution of people upvoting and downvoting comments on any language specific article. For example, if there are 10 Go developers for every 100 Python developers viewing HN, in a thread such as this one, there may be 9 Go developers for every 5 Python developers. This means that a large percentage of viewers of any critical Go posts in a Go thread are Go developers. They will downvote that critical post almost regardless of content. This is not a knock on Go developers, merely standard tribalism. There is an identical effect in Haskell, Ruby, or even Perl discussions. There is probably no solution - if you value karma, I recommend not posting critical comments about a language in a post specific to that thread. You should rather save those comments for more general threads about programming theory, etc. If you don't care about karma (and you shouldn't), then please keep posting.