What I see people are down voting comments without reading and understanting them. Which is lazy.
How I noticed that? By writing unpopular opinion in first sentence then arguing with it in following paragraphs. When I write popular opinion in first sentence I get up votes instead of down votes.
In the end karma on hn does not have any meaning for me anymore.
You're underestimating language. Your experiment can't work because it's impossible to isolate something as subjective as the "popularity" using language, and it's impossible to control for the many subtle variables in language.
Now you are part of the problem. You did not take any time to read any of my comments which are available in my profile. But you state something. Why? That is just lazy. What would be better? If you don't write that comment at all.
I did, actually. Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22870325 are downvoted because they are difficult to parse, they direct insults at the reader, and they felt that defending Amazon in this case was not a good position.
You've done the same here -- leaning on insults (lazy) and assumptions.
Most of the time I don't believe I am informed well enough on a topic to be able to add comments that actually add value to a discussion, but other times I simply don't feel like arguing with some smart but often mean strangers even though I do have an opinion, like most people do. What's the point, anyway?
