I usually wouldn't care too much about karma for individual comments or posts but seeing the above comment being downvoted simply for not liking a book, I must say the voting patterns on HN are getting quite weird.
Unless a comment is offensive or distracting the conversation, take it easy with the downvotes people.
I recently thought that it might be an interesting experiment to not display any vote counts but instead order the posts based on them (as already done I guess).
Unless a comment is offensive or distracting the conversation, take it easy with the downvotes people.
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