I don't see why someone would use their admin privileges to downvote this thread, though. Maybe just the effect of falling off the front page? We had no intentions of making this public ourselves (as to avoid feeding the troll) and we're just trying to get our perspective of the situation across now that the cat is out of the bag here.
This has happened with other submissions that first had significant (democratic) support by the HN community, then someone/something came along and gave its strong undemocratic majestic downvote.
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One reason could be someone with downvoting rights downvoted this to oblivion.
I don't see why someone would use their admin privileges to downvote this thread, though. Maybe just the effect of falling off the front page? We had no intentions of making this public ourselves (as to avoid feeding the troll) and we're just trying to get our perspective of the situation across now that the cat is out of the bag here.
This has happened with other submissions that first had significant (democratic) support by the HN community, then someone/something came along and gave its strong undemocratic majestic downvote.