Comment by adamors
1 year ago
I’ve developed a habbit of automatically downvoting the top comment on most popular submissions because more often than not they are always some knee-jerk, often stupid contrarian reaction to the submission.
I don’t know when this trend started but I don’t remember it being this bad in the past.
People have been complaining about this for over a decade now. Here's some comments by pg himself, on the "middlebrow dismissal":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397542
I guess a knee-jerk reaction demands a knee-jerk response?