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Not sure why you got downvoted for this comment. I've upvoted you to bring you back to neutral. Seems weird.

Not wanting to sound like good old days but "Seems weird" is about right , the voting patterns in the last year has been very different.

Relevant comments and topic submissions that you would think were of interest to "Hackers" just don't seem to get upvoted enough and in many cases simply drop out. This could be a sign of the changing demographics.

I've noticed that my comments often dip immediately to negative scores before recovering. Lord knows some of my comments are worth downvoting, but it's weird that relevant and sincere comments can get downvoted to -3 or -4 within half an hour of being posted and then get gradually upvoted into double digits.

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