It's only weird if (a) I accept that the criticism is well-deserved, which I don't, and (b) because I want to read educated technical discussions. If I want to read half-baked snark then I can go to Reddit or 9GAG. Place like HN should be better than this.

I see some people linking old articles and cryptography research, and some historic incidents. Good! That's arguing in good faith and I've read those with an interest, and upvoted them. "I don't trust Durov", which many of the HN comments about Telegram boil down to, is just noise. I don't want noise in threads where I want to find objective information. I am doing my part to improve HN by downvoting / flagging comments I see as noise or non-constructive attacks.

> Usually I see comments criticizing it get downvoted. Funny, no?

Filter bubbles then, I suppose. Seems we are both in our own and apparently neither of us is right in their generalization. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I can live with that.