As a guideline you can expect anything that's off-topic (like a meta remark about it being a repost) to get at least a few downvotes. This is because when you p

As a guideline you can expect anything that's off-topic (like a meta remark about it being a repost) to get at least a few downvotes. This is because when you post a new comment it'll (often) show up as the top comment, and someone will deem it not top-comment worthy and downvote it. i.e.: sometimes a title is really wrong and a comment about it will get a bunch of upvotes, and then when the title is corrected the comment will actually get voted to the bottom because its no longer relevant or useful to the discussion.