I think it's happening to me as well, and searchyc rates me as just over 3 points per comment.<p>I didn't realise it happened at all until seeing Jacquesm's comments about it, and I'm still undecided about whether it's annoying or not.<p>It's more annoying when a thread goes "comment by me no votes, comment by someone else upvotes, reply by me no votes", for instance, and the result of that kind of thing needs an internal adjustment of the sort "clearly my replies aren't as good as I'm thinking they are". I get a similar feeling from this - yes I'm going out of my way to vote up effortful comments and vote down weak, silly, effortless comments but maybe my votes aren't as 'good' as they should be.<p>Not like being patronised by a car with a plastic steering wheel as mentioned above, but like something that's out of alignment due to misunderstanding the "HN way".