Comment by Razengan

You'd have to be f'n dumb to think anybody cares about votes, if it was just votes. No it fucking hides the comment and prevents you from replying for a while.

And it's so one sided: If just the first 3-5 people who see your comment downvote it, it can prevent hundreds or thousands from seeing it. Way too easy to bury the truth and sometimes used that way.

And look: I downvoted you but you can't downvote me, because I replied to your comment. How dumb did they want this system to be?

Also, timing matters: Sometimes if I post a ""hOt TaKe"" and it gets downvoted immediately, if I delete it and repost the same shit, right away or at a later time, sometimes it gets upvoted on the 2nd or 3rd time try: Proving that only the first few votes really matter. Even a 2020 AI could game this crap.

Working as intended my ass

And I'm not just talking about my own comments and didn't have a part in this post's conversation, I see this shit happening to others all the time and point it out to dang whenever he talks like HN is some posh upscale establishment above the shenanigans of the rest of the net.