I regularly upvote downvoted comments if it looks like someone used a downvote as an "I disagree"-button.
Just undo that nonsense.
There are a lot of “shadow” voters on HN. One might speculate there’s voting rings, but given HN doesn’t allow a given user’s voting history to be public, impossible to audit it to look dark patterns, puppet masters, etc.
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