While I'm not sure what I think of the policy myself, here it is: > Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring readin

While I'm not sure what I think of the policy myself, here it is: > Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html EDIT: I'm not sure why your original comment would have been downvoted, but this is probably why your self-reply is getting downed.