[CarolineW]

I agree with you entirely, although my comment making pretty much the same point is seeing wild swings in the voting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19980584

[jchanimal]

There's a lot of incel lurkers here, and they seem to coordinate their actions somewhere else. Typical up/down vote patterns start with sensible upvotes and then a torrent of jealous downvotes.