Because I had an anonymous account so I did not contribute under my name. I asked if that could be corrected and it was.

Many women in IT chose to contribute anonymously. Recent articles on HN about the place of women and the lack of role models decided me to act.

If you have read the first comment I posted under my name, you already know :-)

As you were a bit puzzled by that, I added that piece of information to my account to avoid similar questions in the future.

EDIT only to realize my comment had now been downvoted. Still, I intend to participate under my name. Sorry for the irrelevance of this, I only wanted to answer your honest question.

(I just accidentally downvoted this comment. I doubt from the timing that I am the person you are referring to who downvoted your comment, as there was likely no way you could typed an edit after having seen that result quite that quickly, and you may have been talking about another comment, but FWIW: my accidental downvote happened when I went to click on your username on my iPhone to see your earlier first comment, and missed the target :/.)

The downvotes had just started- as you can see, due to further dowvotes it has now reached 0.

It is my fault, I could have prevented the situation by adding the warning to my account. I did not realize it would freak out other commenters that much, or that I would need such a full disclosure.

This escalated quickly! Personally, I only care about things people do, and sharing relevant knowledge. I read what people post, not their profile. Since I had an interest in that topic, I thought I could explain a bit more about such a weird headline that catches everyone eye.