No ... it's really not a giant conspiracy. You're just guilty of being a jerk on a very public website which doesn't take kindly to jerks.

I've downvoted all of your comments on this thread because they are completely unrelated to the subject of the article, and consist solely of a joke spectacularly flying over your head to the point where you're getting aggressive and throwing around conspiracy theories about downvoting rings.

I had written a sarcastic response, but I'll be nice instead. Don't you think two people could independently see that you missed a joke and come up with the very generically phrased response of "isn't it a joke?" to point this out? I mean it's four words. It's certainly a more plausible explanation than being some sort of grand conspiracy involving sockpuppet accounts.

You're humour challenged. But so is most of HN.

Perhaps if you scrolled down to the actual article you would have found it interesting?