This comment breaks the site guidelines in at least two ways, as well as being off topic. Please don't post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What is really interesting is the up and down voting patterns as we swing around the working world. Asia/Australia is quite different to Europe which is very different to the USA. You can have a comment voted way up in one region and then massively slammed down as the sun moves into another.

I really experienced this with my anti-GDPR comments. In the afternoon EST they’d be positive and then take a nosedive in the evening / overnight, I assume as Europeans woke up and took umbrage :)

Yes GDPR is one of the topics sensitive to regional voting. Another is anything questioning if humans might not be born blank slates. Human evolution discussion is also quite sensitive to the time of day.

That would be extremely interesting to see. I really wish votelogs were public. The invisible hand is precisely why active measures [1] are so effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures

I, on the other hand, really hope they don’t become public. That’s just going to allow for retaliatory voting.

Public but anonymized, with timestamps might make for some interesting data.

> You were being critical of Apple.

This doesn't fall under improper discourse as there was no discernible inflammatory tone. HN is a collection of critical thinkers and in this case offered an enlightening and relevant mechanical design point.

Wow. I thought I was nuts for noticing this pattern. I have seen it when criticizing various nation states, politicians, and other corporations both here and on Reddit. I guess current generation bots are dumb and have no time delay.