alt Hacker NewsHonestly, I suspect HN is starting to fuzz votes the way Reddit does. Some of the voting I've seen on my own comments lately makes zero sense, including weeks-old comments of perfectly neutral tone. It isn't worth worrying about.
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sokoloff • today at 7:10 AM
I’m pretty sure that after 24 hours, comments cannot be down-voted (only upvoted).
crazygringo • today at 2:32 AM
I don't know if it even needs to be intentional. On mobile, it's incredibly easy to downvote when you mean to upvote.
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Don't discount better and better "I can't believe it's not human" aping behaviour of personal bot armies of HN accounts - there's clear and obvious spam green accounts, and a steady drip of bland comment, weird voting behaviour, biege textual tone accounts that evolve through green and into background noise.
The admins potter about classifying coarse behaviour and looking to reject spam, voting blocs, overly weird AI comments, etc. The creators make their bot accounts less obvious with random votes, etc.