>This is getting to be a rather annoying issue with HN for the past six months or so. Yeah, I agree, but I think it's been more like a year now. The immediate

>This is getting to be a rather annoying issue with HN for the past six months or so. Yeah, I agree, but I think it's been more like a year now. The immediate downvotes are so striking in their regularity that I suspected they may be automated (now I think it's unlikely). So to the GP: I wouldn't worry about quick downvotes. Unless your post is obviously trolling or a low-content Reddit-like comment (which yours was not), it's highly likely it will be upvoted back into the black (and indeed, yours is in the black now).