"Hacker News is a social news website that focuses on content hackers might find interesting. It also differentiates from other social news websites in that there is no option to downmod submissions; submissions can either be voted up or not voted on at all. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"
I don't know for sure, and speak only for myself, but I suspect you've been down-modded for that because it's just a collection of toys with no demonstration of scientific principles or cool ideas.
It's just fairly common stuff, although they're nice toys.
As others have said, this is a web site for people interested in all sorts of things, but mostly on practical computing, making things, breaking things to make them better, and generally figuring out how to do stuff, and make it better.
Among other things that are discouraged are "Wow" and "Me Too!" sorts of comments. They don't add value. If you like something, up-vote it with the arrows.
If you want to gain karma, make useful comments that add value for the audience that's here, and submit items that people here will find interesting.
But first, you'll need to know what people like, so you'll need to hang around a bit and see what gets up-voted, and what gets down-voted. Read around - there's lots of cool stuff.
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It's just fairly common stuff, although they're nice toys.
As others have said, this is a web site for people interested in all sorts of things, but mostly on practical computing, making things, breaking things to make them better, and generally figuring out how to do stuff, and make it better.
Among other things that are discouraged are "Wow" and "Me Too!" sorts of comments. They don't add value. If you like something, up-vote it with the arrows.
If you want to gain karma, make useful comments that add value for the audience that's here, and submit items that people here will find interesting.
But first, you'll need to know what people like, so you'll need to hang around a bit and see what gets up-voted, and what gets down-voted. Read around - there's lots of cool stuff.