> which someone seems determined to bury for some reason
People may be downvoting the top message because it contributes nothing. It doesn't require some nebulous malicious actor somehow trying to keep you down.
Well, this meta speculation about people's machinations is generally
unhelpful anyway. But my claim was somewhat different; that the same
article was spammed to HN three times in a 24 hours. I was surprised
it wasn't flagged as a dupe and merged, which meant only the slight
inconvenience that my earlier relevant comment had to be copy-pasted.
People may be downvoting the top message because it contributes nothing. It doesn't require some nebulous malicious actor somehow trying to keep you down.