I believe your content added nothing to the discussion except drive-by sarcasm, and thus met the HN quality guidelines for downvotes. Your combative tone is wh

I believe your content added nothing to the discussion except drive-by sarcasm, and thus met the HN quality guidelines for downvotes. Your combative tone is what provided the impetus for people to downvote you. Then aggressively challenging the downvoters earned you additional downvotes on this comment.