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If so, they're silently voting, not engaged in the comments.

On my old account, I noticed sometimes I'd get no replies to something, but enough downvotes to hide something... then it seems some algo noticed those votes were odd and the comment is back, but by then discussion has moved on.

But conversely I have not seen the Reddit style bad faith arguments.

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Why do you think that is bots? I reflexively upvote anything I think was unfairly down-voted into gray even if I otherwise wouldn't have upvoted the post, and I observe the same behaviour on my own posts.

>If so, they're silently voting, not engaged in the comments.

it's blatantly obvious with political submissions (which, imho, should be summarily banned from HN)

"Random nobody says X is le good" gets upvoted all the way to the frontpage within minutes with zero comments

"New research suggests X is not le good" gets [flagged] as soon as it gets traction.

where X is one of those many things that terminally online, emotionally unstable people feel strongly about.