This is because an increasingly large percentage of the people here have to deal with the dissonance of having to make their living in an industry and business culture that depends on those kind of practices and consequently rewards and promotes them.
"This is because an increasingly large percentage of the people here have to deal with the dissonance of having to make their living in an industry and business culture that depends on those kind of practices and consequently rewards and promotes them."
And bellow - doesn't show for me in the submission either when logged in or not, only in my comments urls.
Are you using any third-party extensions that could affect this? I can't see how our software would be producing pages that way. There's only one comment by that user (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22757599) and it has no replies.
Nothing HN-specific, and yeah I also see
jbverschoor as having only one comment without replies in his comments page and yet our entire conversation is shown in reply to this one comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756730
EDIT: scratch that, it shows in reply to
hc91 [flagged] comment, but it in turn was originally a reply to my own, not a top-level comment for the submission.
> because it adds nothing substantial to the discussion.
Substantial to whom ? Often people who downvote will prvoide additional information as to their reasoning which can be substantial or insubstantial like any other comment.
If a downvoter didn't share their reasoning already, it's unlikely they will be prompted by a general "why is this getting downvoted?" comment. That's why site rules say you should not ask about downvotes.
