HN consists of mostly humans. Unfortunately, even the smartest and most unbiased ones amongst us aren't entirely immune to sensationalism, so some of us might have voted for reasons other than hate.

Human nature!

.edit: down-vote city for calling HNers human? Or what? Just curious. Don't really care about the points.

.edit²: removed a bit of the blanket from that statement. Pardon the initial poor wording!