The essence of HN hivemind is to worship the "free market" and that capitalism is the end all be all, IMO (that's my experience from having lurked here for seve

The essence of HN hivemind is to worship the "free market" and that capitalism is the end all be all, IMO (that's my experience from having lurked here for several years). Criticizing one of the biggest VCs for HN startups received multiple downvotes and yet no one explained their reasoning for the downvotes, where I was factually incorrect in what I said, etc. My comment wrt the downvotes is that HN users loves to claim that they're not at all like Reddit, yet having lurked there for 5+ years (with multiple accounts for the same time), Reddit is at least more honest with the whole, "I don't agree with your opinion, have a downvote" whereas HN is a more silent downvote. I don't care that I'm downvoted, that's fine by me (muh fake internet pointz!), but to see how often HN users try to feel smug and superior over other communities while doing the same thing is frankly hilarious and sad.