I voted you up one to stop you from crying.
I lost more than 7 points of karma in 20 minutes! All of that because I commented on that story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516027 And I was telling users NOT to flag that story, because those people are in trouble, and we should help them. So everyone down-voted that comment, and when I deleted it, it looks like they wanted to continue down-voting my other comments!
It's just one of those things. Btw - afaik - there is code to prevent users "carpet downmodding" another user.