https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645505
> I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be serious or not.
Comments like that will usually get you downvotes.
> For the baby language, maybe, but downvoting something you don't personally like is pathetic and childish.
"People will downvote for disagreement" is a long established convention on HN. You might disagree with (I do too), but pointing it out by calling people childish is going to get downvoted. Your choice is to keep complaining using the same language (but stop complaining about being downvoted if you do so), or to use different language to complain about downvoting.
Here's PG suggesting that downvote to disagree is a problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057347
Here' PG suggesting that downvote to disagree isn't a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683
See also this thread where most people are talking about a misuse of upvoting (to upvote mean or dumb comments). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696
> And it's, if anything, even more pathetic and childish to petulantly downvote a poster (perhaps across different posts) because they point out that fact.
It's also childish to keep whining^W complaining about downvotes using the same language that got you downvotes.