Title: It seems like there's been a noticeable increase of downvoting neutral, non-inflammatory comments lately. Here's some screenshots of examples from the Android thread:<p>http://awesomescreenshot.com/0622hpufe<p>http://awesomescreenshot.com/0042hpvac<p>http://awesomescreenshot.com/0d92hpw67<p>The first one is an okay, not great comment in the beginning, but then has an interesting note at the end. The second comment is gracious and friendly with some disagreement and stating his experience. The third is slightly stupid, but downvoted into oblivion stupid? I don't think so.<p>There was also a professor of computer science commenting that he was going to show this article to his students as part of why he thinks Android is going to be a big deal, and he was getting downvoted too.<p>I mean, these are unemotional comments about technology. This isn't politics or regulation or anything that makes people want to kick dirt around. I've noticed a couple of my civil, sourced, uncontroversial comments on normal topics sometimes get a quick down to 0 lately too before coming back up. I don't know what's prompting the change in behavior, but it seems different that this is happening in threads that are not really controversial at all. The screenshots I posted don't seem like the kind of thing that'd get hit in the past. Changing demographics of some sort?
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