I rather like the discussion that branched off my response.<p>I got a bunch of down votes. But HN downvotes (and upvotes) behavior never have any correlation to the comment itself. My most throw away comments get a bunch of upvotes. My more thoughtful, respectful comments get downvoted.<p>I will be willing to bet that this particular comment gets downvoted a lot just... because.<p>So I ignore random number after my login id.