Re:The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Mor...
by coldtea on Saturday March 16, 2019 @06:34PM
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Or perhaps it's HN working as always and people disagreeing?
A heavily downvoted post is not exactly a "mob" (any more than a heavily upvoted one would be).
People threatening or calling you names, or demanding your job, etc, would be a mob.
I also get lots of downvotes when my opinion is not popular (which is easy, I'm not very fond of what I consider the fads of the era, or mainstream opinions on most things). But I wouldn't call it a "mob" in ordinary HN cases.
A heavily downvoted post is not exactly a "mob" (any more than a heavily upvoted one would be).
People threatening or calling you names, or demanding your job, etc, would be a mob.
I also get lots of downvotes when my opinion is not popular (which is easy, I'm not very fond of what I consider the fads of the era, or mainstream opinions on most things). But I wouldn't call it a "mob" in ordinary HN cases.