Your vouched items should be visible to you at https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched?id=dooglius
edit: sorry, I missed the sibling comment to this. I only ever come across dead comments, not posts. So I needed to add &kind=comment to see vouched comments.
The people here are rather anti-compassion and any kind of spirituality.
And how I was attacked for calling David Lynch a worthless purveyor of ultraviolence and vapid, wasteful lifestyles was unconscionable.
And I am so rate-limited that I can't even respond to the attacks.
You have made enough money to create an echo chamber, and a necessary part of that is keeping the naysayers out. As dang told me once, the algorithm is functioning as specified.
I'd love to hear about all the good your companies have done for people with the money you've made.
> The people here are rather anti-compassion and any kind of spirituality. And how I was attacked for calling David Lynch a worthless purveyor of ultraviolence and vapid, wasteful lifestyles was unconscionable.
Maybe your problem is not with your opinions but with how you choose to express them. My observation is that disagreement is rarely downvoted massively if it is expressed eloquently. OTOH, emotional and brief conclusory opinions that aren’t supported with narratives or supporting information that are also contrarian may be subject to mass downvoting.
Looking through your comment history, I think you’re experiencing this phenomenon not because you respectfully disagree with others, but because of the quality of your communication.
We're all Paul Graham! https://youtu.be/FKCmyiljKo0?t=65
For not-bad comments just vouch them, but for very-good-I-will-not-be-able-to-sleep-until-it-is-unkilled comments vouch and send an email.