I'm seeing my comments being instantly downvoted and the number is exactly the same each time.<p>What measures exist against high karma accounts downvoting the exact same username out of personal beef? I did mention Peter Thiel is gay (which he admitted publicly and I'm merely stating facts-please see my profile).<p>I was able to graph the time of the downvotes and map it across time and what I'm seeing is a clear pattern of willful downvote manipulation.<p>This is pretty disheartening, because I thought HN was an open and accepting place. Everyday, it's becoming more and more like Stackoverflow.
I've never downvoted you, but I've taken note of you as a vitriolic poster, particularly after you had inflammatory comments deleted from a recent Soylent thread.<p>No downvoting should be automated, but it's possible you're being downvoted due to the content of your posts. gus_massa's hypothesis sounds reasonable.