>I'm confused, why is this voted down? Downvotes on HN, especially for new posts, correlate basically not at all with post quality. That's what happens when a

>I'm confused, why is this voted down? Downvotes on HN, especially for new posts, correlate basically not at all with post quality. That's what happens when a brigade of grumpy assholes make it their mission to read the first word of every sentence in a post and then vote based on whether they feel you wasted their time or not. We're worse than Reddit in this regard so don't worry about it too much.