It's not weird at all.

Posts pushing baseless and debunked conspiracy theories[1] are getting downvoted into oblivion. Posts with highly questionable takes[2, 3] are also seeing the same. Even perspectives that tend to agree with the general HN consensus but are overly antagonistic[4] are receiving this treatment.

The system is working as intended.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986398

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33985551

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33985732

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33985784

HackerNews is NOT turning into Reddit (saying such a thing breaks the site guidelines).

However I think it's OK to say that any topic about Elon Musk on HackerNews always descends into cringe / misinformation / le spaceship man bad / populism / repetitive memes; all fed by people who apparently source their news from /r/politics and r/whitepeopletwitter on Reddit and Business Insider bottom-tier clickbait media.

Get on in here, the echo's fine!