I've never had my posts downvoted so much as on HN. I'm more or less on topic. I'm not engaging in a flame war. I'm not trolling. Is it the "kilopounds" thing

I've never had my posts downvoted so much as on HN. I'm more or less on topic. I'm not engaging in a flame war. I'm not trolling. Is it the "kilopounds" thing? What can I say, I heard that this kind of Greek prefix gets used with non Metric meaurements. So I said sometimes.