Never discuss downvoting in the comments. Do not complain about them. Do not anticipate them. Do not ask for them. Anyone who says anything often enough will su

Never discuss downvoting in the comments. Do not complain about them. Do not anticipate them. Do not ask for them. Anyone who says anything often enough will suffer downvotes at some point. If you can't figure out why, then ignore it. Last two paragraphs: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html There are exceptions, like a legitimate meta-discussion about the karma system, but those should be vanishingly rare.