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How typical. Downvote anything it happens to challenge your beliefs or interests without providing _any_ proof of why they (your beliefs/interests) happen to fall into the right side of things.

One more time @HN admins: Please remove downvote capability. All it does is poisoning the conversations and putting HN community into a downward spiral of adolescent behaviors.

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It's not about it conflicting with beliefs, it's about the article not being from a worthwhile source.

It's downvoted for the same reason puff pieces on some random startup are. It's basically advertising.

(I do not know whether this site in particular actually is a propaganda outfit, but that's how the logic goes if it were)

That comment broke the HN guidelines by adding flamebait and calling names rather than saying anything substantive. Your comment also breaks the guidelines, as you'll see if you read them all. They aren't long, so would you please do that and start following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I realize people have quite wide-ranging views about downvoting. But we're not going to remove it, for the same reason people need white blood cells.

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