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Could you stop downvoting michaelochurch all the time? Several responses who agree with him are in the plus, this comment is <= -2. It's ridiculous.

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Agreed. "all the time" - is there a history behind that?

You can see for yourself. click on his profile and look at his comment history.

I meant what is the reason, but the comment history does have a lot of down votes. I'd search through them for a reason, but that could a while.

The point you're missing on this website: it's frequented by a disproportionate number of millionaires, millionaires who are carefully investing their money to become billionaires within 10 years, and even present-day billionaires. Any posts addressing concerns of "rich people aren't the best thing ever" often get downvoted.

Maybe also related: a lot of startups take VC funding and current VC funding has shady origins. Some funds are powered by illegal russian investment money hidden through one or two layers of LPs, some is money of different questionable provenance, and some is actually clean money from sources you would expect. but, free money, so who cares if your startup is built on peasant blood money?

Once you've taken VC funding, you're not just in startups anymore, you're in politics of money. Money politics are the worst kind — it blinds you to anything illegal or immoral as long as the money keeps flowing.

That presumably also explains why this post has rapidly vanished off the front page, unlike the cats in boxes story. I know, someone will tell me it's algorithmic.

Indiscriminate down votes have to be met with indiscriminate up votes. What a daft situation.

Edit: Ah! That also explains why explanatory comments aren't required for down votes - preferential control. I didn't realise how rigged this is.

I'm pretty sure that it's one person with 4 or 5 accounts. It has been happening ever since I accused Evan Spiegel of paying/coercing someone to write nice things about him in the press. At first I thought it was Snapchat employees, but the downvotes tend to come all at once and sometimes hit more than a day afterward (you can't downvote 2+ day-old comments, presumably because of stalker-downvoting). I've seen comments go from +3 to -1 in a minute, and at weird hours like 6:00 am.

(I doubt it's Evan Spiegel himself. It would be hilarious if it were so. I'd guess that it's a Snapchat employee of relatively low significance, but I really have no idea who it is.)

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