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Comment by huqedato | Hacker News Reader

PS: I really don't understand the downvotes to my post. I've just expressed my (educated and objective) warning.

I share your sentiment, I'm also very skeptical that this money will be wisely used, a good chunk of it probably sinks into the Treibsand of European bureaucracy. And significant amounts will go to shallow ideas of startups. Europe just doesn't have the right startup spirit. It's over regulated and risk averse. Both fatal for a fruitful development.

it's not sinking in the bureaucracy. There's an industry of outright fraud an embezzlement...

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

One of the primary reasons I quit using reddit was because of the ideological dog piling that turned so many communities into insular echo chambers.

I know you’re just quoting the rules, but I’m noticing the same process happening here. It would be a shame if HN continued this trend while everyone stayed silent.

Do you think the question “why am I getting downvoted” is interesting? And is it interesting enough to warrant a separate comment thread? Now imagine if everyone who got downvotes started asking that question, it would lower the quality of conversations here, people would start justifying their vote and their opinion or attacking the other. And in the end, I doubt the people downvoting would really answer, only the people agreeing/upvoting would post some snarky comment about the downvoters being fools, or the quality of the site going down. That’s the “it never does any good” part (were already in it in this conversation IMO)

In my opinion that comment got downvoted because it’s not interesting. It’s a comment I have heard dozens of times, did not provide any example or source, and plenty other people posted effectively the same in here.

I love reading comments about the voting on comments; On the otherhand I find comments on what comments induviduals find "boring" to be tedious.

It's a quote from the site rules.

Actually, it's a quote from the comment I responded to.

It, in turn, appears to be a promotion of one of the site guidelines. In turn I would promote the official guideline:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting"

as well as the not-official personal guideline:

"Guideline-lawering is boring, and uninteresting to any good hacker, or true codesman."

No it wasn’t quote from the original comment, i copy pasted from the guidelines - and the comment “why am I getting downvoted” is off topic in regards to EU and tech funding. The guideline exist precisely to avoid every post devolving into the (boring) conversation we are having now.

Yes, it was, I was quoting your comment - I'm the authority on that fact.

> is off topic in regards to EU and tech funding

cool, then it's a tangent to the original topic, as is your own comment policing. Who made you the voice of HN?

> Who made you the voice of HN?

The fact that I read and understood the guidelines? If I had not said that someone else would have.

BTW "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting" refers to submissions, not comments.

It’s people who either don’t know how it works when dealing with the EU or maybe they are beneficiaries. /shrug

I haven't downvoted you, but I understand why some might have because every thread on Hacker News regarding Europe and software attract this exact comment almost as if written from a template. Doesn't make it right or wrong, but it gets a little stale.

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