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Post by 68c12c16 » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

imron wrote: post #140

68c12c16 wrote: post #132

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My posts, among all the posts sharing some similar views on this topic -- not just in this thread but in many other threads on this topic as well -- are not the only ones that have been downvoted multiple times -- from a purely statistical estimation, this should not be the case...And if you have done some search within the domain of news.ycombinator.com, you could easily find other downvoted instances that have been…

Here are two posts more threatening to the current Chinese government and their way of thinking than your post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14743104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14741623 And yet they don't appear to have been downvoted. It just seems like you are creating a rather complex theory to explain the reason for your downvotes, rather than accept the more likely reason that you just made a l…

the two examples that you just listed are in this local thread (i.e. a very select and small sample space)...like I said in my previous post, I feel we should have "some analysis on a global set of data", in order to further verify whether there is any information manipulation on HN -- as it is the overall, global and long term data that eventually reveals any potential behavior with a relatively stable purpose by an entity...

  > It just seems like you are creating a rather complex theory to explain the 
  > reason for your downvotes, rather than accept the more likely reason 
  > that you just made a low quality post.

you seem to be making an implicit assumption here that there is an absolute measurement for post quality...and another assumption that I was also on board with that measurement...

Aren't you creating a theory to justify your own view of the world and then fit me -- not just my posts -- into that frame? And then verify that theory with a small local data set...by all means, if you want to continue with that method of reasoning and that kind of mindset, it would be okay with me...