I've been basing my behaviour on what I've watched on here before I signed up and my character is completely in line with that. You have to accept there is a serious attitude problem with many of the established members that goes unchecked because they're established members. Plus significant of abuse of peer moderation too with polite, informative and often correct posts receiving -ve karma from fanboys. Yet the newbies get hit the hardest (I'm basing that assertion on the fact that established members never get reprimanded for breaking the rules).
This place is awash with arrogant and condescending trolls - which is why I based my character on that behaviour. So even if I reel my tone in, who's going to correct the established members who comment in kind?
Instead, you should flag comments that break the guidelines and/or let us know about them at [email protected], while following them scrupulously yourself.
Re “based my character”: that’s just a cute way of saying how our online personas are caricatures of our real selves.
Your first comment wasn't a personal attack, but it still broke the site guidelines—for example the one that asks you to "please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Arguably also the one against snark.
I looked at the vote data, and there's no evidence whatsoever that your comment was downvoted by a voting ring. Far more likely is that it was downvoted for breaking the guidelines. Please don't do that (which btw includes not going on about downvotes).