Unless you have access to the HN database, there isn't a way to know the source of downvotes.

This kind of commentary is not welcome on HN.

Late to the party, but I suspect you were downvoted for your arrogant and condescending tone, combined with your sense of unsubstantiated victimhood.

I'm not sure how you can leap to conclusions about my tone of voice from textual comments? One user @rattray is even citing quotes from the rule book to me here, and somehow I'm the one being condescending? But hey, regardless of the situation, nobody deserves to be insulted like this! You can do better, man. I can give you the benefit of the doubt; I suspect you wouldn't ever act this way in person to anybody.

I also don't see how any sort of purported victimhood would be unsubstantiated (I just don't happen to take website comments from strangers all that seriously): I'm just trying to talk about WebAssembly, and this troll spends their Friday night posting these kinds of inflammatory comments on nearly-dead threads from the beginning of the week. :(

As a reminder, you're breaking the very first rule -- "be civil" -- since we're sticklers about the rules here. You are acting very rude!

Actually, it turns out that at the time you posted this, you couldn't even see the contents of my original post that was downvoted because it was flagged and hidden via the moderators, so I'm not sure how you can even comment at all on why it was downvoted in the first place.

Ridiculous leap to conclusions here!