Ok mods (and audience), I'm sorry for this tedious subthread. I'm going to try extra hard not to mention downvotes anymore.
As for you, I don't know what the deal is, but if you feel like attacking me in the future please understand my comment first.
EDIT: Okay, listen. The reaction was to this part:
"but you have to at least make a minimal effort to understand how the whole thing works and what the abuse potential is for your suggestions."
That felt like a personal swipe, combined with the rest of the comment that read as "hey you're offtopic and didn't you write a script to hide downvotes anyway." It felt like that was written solely to put me on the defensive. So -- principle of charity -- I'd rather assume that this was all a miscommunication rather than malicious.
The spat is tedious, I like your writing, so for the second time here is an olive branch.
> Not all of us have a blog and an HN army to upvote our weekly motivational posts to funnel views to our consulting business.
Who started the attack here? That was an asshole comment. I don't have an army to upvote my posts and I don't funnel views to my consulting business. I've NEVER had any paid work through HN.
You're reading way too much into this.