My profile has -8 downvotes. Most of them were probably made by the Rust people. I explained to the person that C ++ has RAII when he said that you need to manually manage memory in C ++, not Rust.<p>What's the wrong with that?
I'm sorry for this. I know it can be hard to "get going" accumulating points. If there is a silver lining, it is that there don't seem to be many things you can't do once you reach about 1200 points.<p>Here are my recommendations.<p>First, the community can be very sensitive to the perceived tone of your notes. For example, I would imagine that even<p><i>"Most of them were probably made by the Rust people"</i><p>could rub some the wrong way and they might down vote you just on the tone, even if they agreed with the larger points in your message.<p>Second, I <i>think</i> there is no/little risk in creating initial posts. While they can be flagged, I am not sure you can accumulate down votes. If you find interesting things (to tech/startup types of people) then initial posts might be a "less risky" way to get started. Take that with a grain of salt though as I have only ever commented.<p>Third, there are a number of "lighting rod" issues for this community that one side will tend to upvote and the other down vote based on principle. I would tend to shy away from heated topics with clearly defined "sides" particularly anything political.<p>Fourth, there are some issues that "most" of the community supports and questioning those topics/beliefs can (as you probably have seen) result in large point dings. Again, it really does not matter if you are making a sound argument against one of these communal treasures.<p>Some people who love and support an issue are likely to downvote to show that they don't "agree" with you perspective, not that what you said was offensive and if you are challenging an issue that the majority of the community supports, you are likely to see big point loss.<p>Good luck, read the Guidelines posted below and welcome to the community.
hn is kind of notorious for having most of the people in a thread have pretty similar opinions, reddit is another one if you try criticizing anything about certain companies in the wrong channel there are going to be a bunch of people who will target your account with massive down votes so that the comment is removed
To be fair, you’re doing the old:<p>“Nuh uh, you can definitely use a car as a boat”.<p>Yes, you’re right, you can live in the stack and use RAII for C++. But there’s no enforcement flag or a RAII-ONLY check at compile. So it’s moot what you’re saying.