Shall HN turn into a subreddit per thread, as crowds defend post “territories”?
Sometimes the voting is unfair. However it most common that there is a reason for the voting behaviour and it is just that you are not making any effort to understand the reasons why people acting fairly can appear wrong to you. Read, watch, pay attention, and listen when someone spends their time to answer you.
The comment would potentially be much more valuable if, besides the bare fact, it made the case for how/why that fact should be given weight in the context of the instant article. (I can't judge whether it would or not without the content of that argument, but it at least has potential.)
> Whether you AGREE with my assessment that, no they are not a good faith actor, is perhaps an open question.
Whether or not I agree with that is tangential to whether I would agree that pointing one fact forming (I hope only part of) the basis of that assessment with no further elaboration of its relevance to the immediate subject of discussion is a contribution up to the minimum quality standards expected on HN.