> Start commenting with a contrary opinion and you'll see what I'm talking about.
I've been involved in a number of highly controversial threads, often disagreeing with the dominant view expressed in the thread, don't meet most of the standards you suggest are required to gain significant positive karma [1], and yet have over 10K karma with a current avg of 2.55.
> And are you saying that I should ignore conservations that I disagree with to protect my votes...???
I would suggest that its not disagreement with your opinions that is causing you to accumulate negative karma.
> It's a self censorship that leads to this massive amount of consensus on everything from posts to comments.
I don't see this consensus you are complaining about (and its interesting that the people complaining about supposed consensus here don't agree on what that consensus is. I suspect that's because the complaints tend to come from people that are -- likely unconsciously -- overweighting the prominence of the views that they disagree with and thus seeing a hostile consensus, and a different hostile consensus that other people see.)
I've been involved in a number of highly controversial threads, often disagreeing with the dominant view expressed in the thread, don't meet most of the standards you suggest are required to gain significant positive karma [1], and yet have over 10K karma with a current avg of 2.55.
> And are you saying that I should ignore conservations that I disagree with to protect my votes...???
I would suggest that its not disagreement with your opinions that is causing you to accumulate negative karma.
> It's a self censorship that leads to this massive amount of consensus on everything from posts to comments.
I don't see this consensus you are complaining about (and its interesting that the people complaining about supposed consensus here don't agree on what that consensus is. I suspect that's because the complaints tend to come from people that are -- likely unconsciously -- overweighting the prominence of the views that they disagree with and thus seeing a hostile consensus, and a different hostile consensus that other people see.)
[1] in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7973724