If you're referring to the downvotes on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42873211, I think that comment would have done better if you had omitted the swipes, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

e.g. "You are, in typical HN style, minimising the problem into insignificance" and "love how this is getting ratioed by egotistical self confessed x10 engineers". This is the sort of thing commenters here are asked to edit out of their comment, and when they don't, it's correct to downvote them (even though your underlying points may otherwise be correct).