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You have very good points (I think you meant unprofessional instead of non-professional).

Amazing. There are downvotes on your comment. This just shows what kind of community this is.

Not sure it reflects on the entire community. Proposition - that the majority of users are well intentioned and participate by either upvoting or not voting. The minority aggressively downvote for whatever reason. In this circumstance, the aggressive downvoters are misrepresented simply because they are more active / their behaviour is more recognised.

Additionally, due to a generally positive bias (supposing we all generally like YC, HN and have a common positive attitude towards startup culture), the downvotes are more noticable / memorable than things that are frequently upvoted.

Same reason all you can focus on is that chip in your windscreen when realistically its only 2% of the entire window. =)

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