The comment you're complaining about downvotes looks to be at +33 right now. The downvote situation is always in flux, which is one reason why the HN guidelines ask you not to post comments complaining about being downvoted.
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your guidance always welcome. i think posting about the community despite requests not to happens because there isn't a thread or forum to discuss administrivia. when people feel something strange or new is happening on the administrative side they are more likely to ask peers what is up rather than email site administrators.
Spoken like a true Stalinist, and so true. It would be complete debauchery. Unless the comments auto-delete after N minutes. This would create a very interesting metric giving insights into psychology at the same time. That is, it would be interesting to explore the relationship between N minutes on downvote thread and number of down vote comments in other threads. With conclusions like "1.2 minutes is just enough downvote-thread time for the individual to feel they released their angst enough while also having a R powered reduction on complaints overall in other threads"
I don't know why HN doesn't do these types of crazy experiments in social/political science. I'd have a heigh day.
I'm going to detach this subthread and mark it off topic now.