On: Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve lea...

[wellboy]

One of the top 5 bloggers in tech.

[evo_9 → wellboy]

Be that as it may why should the poster be downvoted for this?

Whenever I fool myself into thinking HN is above petty ego bullshit this kind of thing reminds me how mistaken I am.

[dang → evo_9]

The comment was unsubstantive and arguably a bit snarky. Those are downvoteable qualities on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[Spooks → evo_9]

I think the downvotes are for the lack of contribution from his comment. It was unnecessary and not on topic.

[dragonwriter → evo_9]

> Be that as it may why should the poster be downvoted for this?

Because the snide one-liner post wasn't a productive contribution to the discussion. And that would be true whether or not the blogger was prominent.

[j2kun → wellboy]

What does that even mean