Re:Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools
by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:35PM
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> Why is this downvoted? This has been happening a lot recently on seemingly normal messages.
It's actually fairly normal for HN, posts very often attract a few stray downvotes when they don't really deserve it (the set of people who can vote is broad enough that that is blind to happen) and if that happens early on you'll often end up with a undeserved negative net score.
And it'll usually go away fairly soon, which is one of the reasons for the guideline about not discussing the votes a post receives. It is almost always a waste of time that will provoke one or more people to get up on a soapbox about the way they perceive a viewpoint to be systematically suppressed on HN, often about the same time the score recovers to net positive, never to return to net down voted status, so all that's left in the subthread is a bunch of conspiracy theories explaining why HN is biased against a message with a positive net score.
It's actually fairly normal for HN, posts very often attract a few stray downvotes when they don't really deserve it (the set of people who can vote is broad enough that that is blind to happen) and if that happens early on you'll often end up with a undeserved negative net score.
And it'll usually go away fairly soon, which is one of the reasons for the guideline about not discussing the votes a post receives. It is almost always a waste of time that will provoke one or more people to get up on a soapbox about the way they perceive a viewpoint to be systematically suppressed on HN, often about the same time the score recovers to net positive, never to return to net down voted status, so all that's left in the subthread is a bunch of conspiracy theories explaining why HN is biased against a message with a positive net score.