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Why are people voting down the people who are saying that it is a great group? (I'm not a part of it. I'm Australian)

Because they are not telling why this is a great group. There must be some basis on which there comments rest. If they cannot express that, better just upvote the story.

Those three accounts are also all new (two are four hours old - as are the comments - and one is four days old), with no other activity than saying that it's a great group.

I understand your concerns about the accounts (among other things, mine is newer) but I took the opportunity to sign up on HN (before I read only)to rate this story of a group to which I belong and that I find interesting. I wrote "Great Group!" because I find it useful, we talk about success stories, we exchanged views, opinions and demonstrates that the Startups Scene is not just in Silicon Valley

sure! you find it useful. But why? If you would have explained all this instead of saying "Great Group!", you wouldn't have been downvoted.

You see, on HN we try to explain what we are saying and don't take much on face value. Also a two word comment is usually replaced by an upvote.

Oh ok, sorry, I try to fix my reputation (or karma) ASAP :)

Who said anything about your karma? I never look at anyone's karma before judging. What you wrote was crap and go downvoted. Thats all there is to it.

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