A long discussion of why something was downvoted (like this one) degrades the quality of the thread, and it's usually obvious why the comment might have been do

A long discussion of why something was downvoted (like this one) degrades the quality of the thread, and it's usually obvious why the comment might have been downvoted, especially after reading the guidelines.[1] W/ respect to your specific "sad" example, the topmost comment on that thread gives the relevant information and has not been downvoted (as I'm reading it). The downvoted comment below it doesn't seem to add anything useful (but I didn't downvote it). Plus, if you think something's been downvoted inappropriately, vote it up. People make mistakes sometimes. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html