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>>itchyj+(OP)
I don't have hard analytical data here but on highly partisan tech issues (Microsoft, Open Source and Licensing, Language strengths and weaknesses, etc) I've noticed there is often a significant swing in the direction of the voting over time with the first voters (who are presumably quickly refreshing the HN new page and responding immediately to everything) being the most hyper-tech-partisan, anti-Microsoft, pro-GPL, anti-TypeScript downvoters (but not commenters) pounding well-intentioned comments quickly into the gray, followed later in the day by the more mainstream HN voters and commenters who appear to be much less dogmatically anti-Microsoft, etc., and who commonly flip those initially grayed out comments back into positive territory and frequently well up into the comment rankings.

>>yodon+Pj
I'd love to see visualizations over time for the voting on comments. What I've seen often is as soon as I post something, it gets immediately downvoted, often multiple downvotes. Doesn't matter what I post. It could be pro-Company, anti-Company, pro-Language, anti-Language, right, left, doesn't matter. Immediately down. Then throughout the day, gradually the upvotes come (presumably from people who actually read the comment), and the comment long-term ends up around 1 or 2.

I've seen this initial drop followed by slow and steady upvotes over and over and over. The mods/admins must have tools to plot votes over time and I bet the visualizations are very interesting.