Complaining about downvoting is straight-up against the HN guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelin

Complaining about downvoting is straight-up against the HN guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. And in this case, it's more than a little manipulative. "Truly a shameful display by the folks here."