[abustamam]

They've been around forever, even before Trump's first administration. But a broken clock is right twice a day.

Those people also get down voted to oblivion. Their text is gray. I can't read it unless I click the timestamp.

Clearly, HN doesn't want us to listen to them.

Yes, sometimes they can be combative and inflammatory. But even the ones that are otherwise reasonable get down voted because how dare we insult capitalism and billionaires?

[k33n]

In reality nothing you said is happening on HN. It’s the pro-US and pro-Trump comments that are downvoted and flagged to oblivion.

[stinkbeetle]

> They've been around forever

That is "HN". HN is the people who read and post here.

> Those people also get down voted to oblivion. Their text is gray. I can't read it unless I click the timestamp.

I'm sure some are but quite a few are not because I have been able to see them quite a lot without clicking.

> Yes, sometimes they can be combative and inflammatory. But even the ones that are otherwise reasonable get down voted because how dare we insult capitalism and billionaires?

I must say that I have never seen that happen, but I don't tend to trawl through a lot of hidden comments. There certainly seem to be some favored billionaires who might upset people to criticize here. Trump is obviously not among them.