why is this downvoted ? I didn't read this as an endorsement to upvote but rather as witty response to @argonaut , unless i'm missing something else entirely here and the downvotes are warranted.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

Rallying the crowd for up-votes (even for another user's post) falls pretty much in the same ballpark.

like I said, I didn't read it as a rally for upvote, but rather a witty response to the previous comment. Unless he/she actually was rallying for upvotes and I read it wrong.

Thanks man. I have plenty of other stuff I used rally-ing up on ;-) next time all say 'well played' instead of up vote