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A bit ridiculous that I'm being downvoted for misspelling "its" as "it's". I've now corrected it in the above post.

I'm often curious why particular comments are down voted, so this caught my eye. Why did you come to the conclusion that it was due to a typo? That said, I don't have an alternative theory.

I wasn't certain, but it was the only grammatical error I could see in the comment.

Do you know it was due to grammar? I've seen mention that some people will down vote for disagreement, for example.

I hadn't considered it. The HN crowd is a lot better at understanding that downvotes are for comments that do not contribute to the conversation, rather than what they disagree with.

Maybe that's a more popular trend now? Having been active on HN for a long time and watched it evolve I guess I could see that...

Anyway, the branch of the conversation has gotten quite deep down the 'meta' rabbithole.

Agreed. Thanks for the feedback!

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