> not rocking the boat and saying anything that goes against the echo chamber

I think there may be something in that.

My most-upvoted comments have been (a) comments to the root article, not sub-comments; and (b) generally rather short and 'flip'. Apart from that, I can't find any pattern in which comments get upvoted and which don't.

I don't (I hope) post echo-chamber comments; if everyone already agrees with me, there's no point in posting.

I post what I think are insightful comments, that stick on 1 forever; and comments that I know are controversial, that scoop 20 upvotes in 10 minutes. I also occasionally post vacuous, "witty" one-liners that, to my surprise, garner lots of upvotes.

I don't post for karma; I post for sub-comments, i.e. I want to discuss stuff. I don't like long comment threads on HN though; so I never post more than one or two replies to my own thread.

It's named after the karma leaderboard page: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

You'll be downvoted for saying this.

EDIT: just as I'm being downvoted. The echo chamber cannot be called out.

EDIT: the guideline of not discussing downvotes hardly applies here!!

HN guidelines

>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

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>the guideline of not discussing downvotes hardly applies here!!

Why? Your entire post was "You'll be downvoted for saying this."

I think they meant it doesn't apply on this entire page. Which seems reasonble, since the whole thread is about posts ranked by commenter's karma, which is a direct reflection of votes. How could "not discussing downvotes" be an appropriate guideline in a discussion specifically about comment votes?