I think the most important data points here are any comments that were left, and the net karma of the comment. People have in fact been known to overreact, or react in idiosyncratic ways, in forum discussions; I haven’t seen the thread in question, but if the responses were friendly and the comment got ~0 net karma, then that would be a large update for me.
I definitely took “that got downvoted a lot” to mean that the comment got a lot of net downvotes, not just that people offset its upvotes to keep it around a neutral 0. I think it’s pretty bad to describe vote patterns that misleadingly, if it was hovering around 0.
I think the most important data points here are any comments that were left, and the net karma of the comment. People have in fact been known to overreact, or react in idiosyncratic ways, in forum discussions; I haven’t seen the thread in question, but if the responses were friendly and the comment got ~0 net karma, then that would be a large update for me.
I definitely took “that got downvoted a lot” to mean that the comment got a lot of net downvotes, not just that people offset its upvotes to keep it around a neutral 0. I think it’s pretty bad to describe vote patterns that misleadingly, if it was hovering around 0.