Asking why you're being down voted is not the same as complaining about being down voted. If you legitimately don't know why I think you should ask. It's an opportunity to learn what is and isn't considered proper etiquette.
These are comments which are already clearly disingenuous concern trolling, pretending to not understand why they're being downvoted in the hope of baiting someone into responding. It's the lowest level of discourse.
I agree but I tend to get the benefit of the doubt because it's impossible to be sure that they're pretending to not understand as opposed to actually not understanding.
> Asking why you're being down voted is not the same as complaining about being down voted.
You're right. Never suggested otherwise. However, if the comment and the question are equally short, and your other commentary makes it clear you are just fishing for trouble, you'll get no sympathy.
True, you didn't suggest otherwise. I just didn't see anyone in the thread complaining about being down voted. I saw a few people asking why they'd been down voted though. It's possible I missed the comments where they were complaining.
As for someone fishing for trouble, I think it's fairly easy to be relatively sure that's the case (vs genuinely ignorant), but impossible to be certain, and I tend to prefer giving the benefit of the doubt.
