Downvotes. Greyed out text. For no explicable reason.

Allegation of severe HN censorship. Further speculation on the political motives inside Y Combinator.

a condescending note about not commenting about votes on comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

a secondary comment explicitly explaining why this comment’s author downvoted the parent.

[Breaking the Wall:

That wasn’t a comment about up/downvotes. It was a comment without up/downvotes.]

Oh. What? How did I get here? No comment here.