No, you don't deserve it. In its non-horticultural sense, "graft" is a particularly tricky word, because it's familiar to most native English speakers, but can

No, you don't deserve it. In its non-horticultural sense, "graft" is a particularly tricky word, because it's familiar to most native English speakers, but can mean almost opposing things in England and America. So people often think they understand what is being said, while actually misunderstanding each other. Here's an article on the topic: https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2012/01/graft.html https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2012/01/graf.... On the other hand, many of the readers of this blog are native English speakers, and to most of us the metaphorical meaning of the title was clear. A very useful function of voting is to re-order the comments on the page. This is a useful comment, but only for a small subset of readers. As such, it's perfectly reasonable that it would appear after the other more technical comments. Which is to say that while you don't deserve to be downvoted, the comment arguably does. I personally upvoted it, because of my personal experience with intercontinental miscommunication involving the word "graft", but I can see why others would want to prioritize other comments. Not because it's a bad comment --- I'm sure a few people found it really helpful --- but because it's a meta-comment on a technical site that helps only a small portion of the audience. So you should proudly keep making helpful comments like this, and not take it at all personally when they are downvoted to the bottom of the page. This is a case where you should feel confident that you did the right thing, despite the apparent feedback.