Since the edit deadline has long-passed, I'll reply with a note: I suspect my comment was downvoted by people trawling my history after seeing https://news.yco

Since the edit deadline has long-passed, I'll reply with a note: I suspect my comment was downvoted by people trawling my history after seeing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879389 and disagreeing strongly. It may just be confirmation bias, but this isn't the first time I've noticed my older comments getting downvoted after a comment of mine gets a lot of eyeballs. I realize karma means nothing, but this behavior harms the quality of HN. The mods may want to consider writing a detection/mitigation feature to ignore such downvotes.