Why downvote this comment? He hasn’t said anything harmful or hateful, and conservative means different things depending on the context. Conservatives are not always regressive or republicans or fascist.

It’s because sorting comments by “hot” prioritizes new comments more than old comments even taking into account votes. So a 3d old comment with 50 votes might appear below a 2h old comment with 5 votes. Unlike Reddit which just pushes the first comments to the top and anything new will drown in the sea of comments and never surface or be seen.