Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320600, which was (originally) posted a bit earlier and has more background. We'll put the current links in the top text there as well.
Sorry ottomengis! We do still intend to make a karma-sharing system for cases like this. In the meantime, it does tend to even out in the long run.
No problem! I had not seen the earlier post, thanks for the heads up