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This comment is an example of why complaints about downvotes are discouraged in the HN guidelines.
The comment is not downvoted now.
Given a bit of time, substantive comments that get early downvotes generally get restorative upvotes and end up back in the black, so to speak.
It's refreshing.
There are plenty of people I would never have listened to otherwise, because they are outside my bubble or just because they would represent something against my view of the world.
But because I also saw people I view as interesting or people I already knew from somewhere else, and because they have the time and space to elaborate, I gave the others a chance.
This allowed me to be exposed to new topics, points of views, etc, in a relaxing and human format.
Just like regular media, it's full of bullshit. But I'm full of it too.
It does, however, feel way more genuine than regular media.