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Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so aggressive?

7 points by m1117 ↗ HN
Why is the hackernews community not nice? 1. No equality. Some chosen people can downvote. 2. People leave passive aggressive comments. 3. People downvote my honest opinion when I share it.

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firebaze
Because it is opposed to flame wars :)
mikece
Well that's odd... I up-voted the question and my karma just went down by 15 points. :)
h2odragon
I must disagree; I think the general tone here is still remarkably positive, thanks partially to well articulated site guidelines, and much-ly to the wonderful moderators who take the time, again and again, to persuade and explain their mission.
okareaman
I took a look at your comment history. Most of you comments are not downvoted. The one's that are don't add anything to the conversation. HN hates that because it's noise. Commenting "I love it!" would get downvoted. Don't take it personally.
king_panic
You're last comment was

`I'd go and get it ASAP, so I resume my life. Anti-vaxxers can isolate themselves forever :)`

You got an honest response to an honest comment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

URfejk
Who cares. Why would it have to be nice anyways?

Move on. If you can't, leave.

jjgreen
Anyone with karma above 500 can downvote
gus_massa
Looking at your comments, try to avoid onliners. It is very difficult to write onliners here.Try to expend your comment to a few sentences, and perhaps add a citation if relevant.
misterhtmlcss
This is a bizarre comment to make from my point of view.

I truly love this community and I've been called out, voted down, voted up, etc. It's always with authenticity and with articulate responses.

Honestly this kind of comment feels like clickbait, which is truly frowned up within this community and will definitely mark you.