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Downvotes (and flags) are getting ridiculous on this site. I’ve recently been downvoted for (among other things) criticising Tesla, speaking up for women, being a dick. Only one of those was justified.

This will also get downvoted.

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> This will also get downvoted.

For breaking the community guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Yeah, and it’s a dumb guideline. If there’s no feedback we will never improve. Slashdot used to have meta moderation for this very reason.

What needs to be done is show a LIST of accounts who have downvoted or flagged a post.

Then we can find out if there really are bots on this site. (I am leaning towards there are.)

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