I'd mod you up for making an interesting point, but it'd interfere with the meta-ness of your question being greyed out (a bit). I therefore leave you down-modded so you can better make your point.

On this particular story there seems to be quite a lot of (random?) down-modding. It'd be nice to hear if the admins could comment. From just looking at the greyed out comments, it at least seems different from the usual hn-patterns?

This isn't the first thread this has been happening on. I've been noticing it for weeks now.