[GuiA]

Attempts to build constructive conversations in these threads are almost always met with heavy flagging/downvoting. My own personal experience is that any comment that isn’t 100% backing the CCP falls to a negative score in a matter of minutes. Sometimes it goes back to 0/1 over the following hours, sometimes not. I’ve been on HN almost 10 years and that’s almost always been true, but it’s gotten much worse in recent years. Speaking to others, I know I’m not alone.

The standard mod answer is that you all are aware of voting rings and there’s no CCP astroturfing on HN, but many regular users feel like that’s not the case, so clearly there’s a disconnect here.

Edit: lol at this comment being -1 minutes after posting it

[dang]

> any comment that isn’t 100% backing the CCP falls to a negative score in a matter of minutes

This is so bizarrely remote from accurate that I don't know what else to tell you. As far as I can tell, the only explanation for this sort of wild misassessment is that people's perceptions are extremely affected by their passions. The more passionate our beliefs, the more we simply can't see the datapoints that don't fit the filter.

That also explains why these claims are getting more common these days: passions are rising.

When your comments are breaking the site guidelines, you need look no further for why they might be downvoted. I seem to recall that you've done that a lot.

[GuiA]

Ah yes dang. Users who are otherwise constructive members of the site break the rules only on CCP related threads. Not only that, but their rule breaking is only penalized in the minutes after which they post, only to slowly return to the mean over time.

Keep telling yourself that.