Well, first off, from the site guidelines: >"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1] But t

Well, first off, from the site guidelines: >"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1] But to address your key point, I'd bet a lot of people are down-voting the grandparent's superior/condescending tone, as exemplified by the following fragments: >"America’s big problem... yet Americans take it on faith... Americans simply cannot entertain" [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html