I don't now how it started, but I'm sure it doesn't help that you edited all your posts to complain about it.

Quoting from the HN guidelines [1]: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Flagging a gentle and reasonable statement like "that isn't what I meant" isn't a practical way to handle disagreement, and doesn't follow HN's rules

The punishment culture for not being part of the crowd has gotten too much here.

Just roll with it. These are fake internet points anyway. They don't have any value. You can't leave them to your kids (something a commenter said the other day that's still ticking my brain). Complaining only motivates people to poke at you with more downvotes because they know it bothers you.

On Reddit I do. They have consequences here

At any rate, I've learned that my commentary here is considered inappropriate, so I should probably drop it.