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Comment by ANTSANTS | Hacker News Reader

You're probably right about /newcomments, but it seems uncannily common recently, even with posts that have nothing to do with politics.

As for the article, I would summarize it like so: "I'm drawing a link between mild fanservice in superhero comic books and male chauvinism and sexual harassment in the tech industry, and also think of the childrens." Seems pretty anti-sex to me.

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Downvotes can be accidental; incorrect downvotes are normally corrected pretty quickly; commenting on your downvotes is risky because that can attract more downvotes; downvoting for simple disagreement is acceptable on HN.

I'm well aware of all that, but with all of the intentional unjustified downvoting that goes on around here, I'm happy to burn some meaningless internet points calling people out on it from time to time.

Downvoting for disagreement is allowed, but I still think it's a dumb policy. I upvote people I disagree with all the time for moving discussion along with pointed questions, so it's saddening to see people downvoted or be downvoted myself merely for holding an opinion contrary to the hivemind. Not because I give a flying fuck about internet points, but because it reflects poorly on the community and its capacity for debate. But then again, I think upvote systems are dumb to begin with.

link is too strong a word. He draws a parallel between the situations, but doesn't say the one is causing the other, just that they have some similarities.

It's kind of hard to "draw a parallel" when your writing implement of choice is a giant image macro.

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