The comment was only a few minutes old, so the downvotes may not have been representative of the HN population yet. It looks fine as of this moment. Reacting to

The comment was only a few minutes old, so the downvotes may not have been representative of the HN population yet. It looks fine as of this moment. Reacting too fast on something being downvoted is often unnecessary, and distracts from the original point, so I often downvote such reactions.