This isn't the greatest comment in the world but negative? It's a fine comment. Might be right, might be wrong, but a fine on-topic comment. The only show co

This isn't the greatest comment in the world but negative? It's a fine comment. Might be right, might be wrong, but a fine on-topic comment. The only show correlation under an overly simplified model I hope you can appreciate the irony of trying to draw any conclusions from what might have been a single erroneous downvote. At -5 and [flagged], there might be cause for concern. If it happens always, then definitely ask questions. But a single -1 doesn't give much information about group sentiment. Consider that you might be reading too closely into path-dependent noise. In general, almost no one votes, and it's hard to figure out what they are thinking when they do. Possibly someone was bothered by the tiny typo in the first sentence ("The only show"), or perhaps they meant to upvote on a mobile screen and missed. This put the comment at the bottom, and after that it few people read it, and no one else voted. If you are interested, you could ask 'dang' what the actual voting pattern was and he'd probably tell you. So certainly you should wonder after a while if something is wrong with your commenting style if all your comments end up negative, but I wouldn't assume that yet. I'm commenting here in part because I remembered your username from this pleasant exchange you had with BeeOnRope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305216. Please keep commenting.