Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so aggressive?

7 points·m1117··9 comments

Why is the hackernews community not nice? 1. No equality. Some chosen people can downvote. 2. People leave passive aggressive comments. 3. People downvote my honest opinion when I share it.

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I took a look at your comment history. Most of you comments are not downvoted. The one's that are don't add anything to the conversation. HN hates that because it's noise. Commenting "I love it!" would get downvoted. Don't take it personally.

This is a bizarre comment to make from my point of view.

I truly love this community and I've been called out, voted down, voted up, etc. It's always with authenticity and with articulate responses.

Honestly this kind of comment feels like clickbait, which is truly frowned up within this community and will definitely mark you.

I must disagree; I think the general tone here is still remarkably positive, thanks partially to well articulated site guidelines, and much-ly to the wonderful moderators who take the time, again and again, to persuade and explain their mission.

Looking at your comments, try to avoid onliners. It is very difficult to write onliners here.Try to expend your comment to a few sentences, and perhaps add a citation if relevant.

Well that's odd... I up-voted the question and my karma just went down by 15 points. :)

Who cares. Why would it have to be nice anyways?

Move on. If you can't, leave.

Anyone with karma above 500 can downvote

Because it is opposed to flame wars :)

You're last comment was

`I'd go and get it ASAP, so I resume my life. Anti-vaxxers can isolate themselves forever :)`

You got an honest response to an honest comment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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