Pretty much sums it up, and is another reason my involvement with HN has decreased significantly over the last year or so. This mode of operation is gross to me.
What kind of opinions are you guys seeing get trolled/downvoted out?
The only things I've seen eat dirt like that are jokes, and comments that were worded in an inflammatory way / presenting opinions as unassailable facts (even if they were right in my opinion). Mainly when people insult the Node.js ecosystem or some flash-in-the-pan new programming language
I haven't seen any Twitter-style anger over "sea lioning" *, or Reddit-style castigation over anything even slightly unpopular
* where people are having a public conversation on a public forum, but act like any attempt to engage with them is invading their private space
