I'm puzzled. Which ways do you feel were bad?

My first comment which reached -2 said:

> That video by Perun is 2 years old, while TFA is from today. Surely there have been additional lessons learned in two years?

What was wrong about the delivery, so that I can learn and avoid it in the future?

It might help to first understand both pieces said essentially the same thing and came to the same conclusions. They both also look beyond a single war and a single operator

Using italics was unnecessary

So it wasn't the delivery after all, but the content? Punished for disagreement, in other words?

It's also hilarious I got downvoted for saying Perun's video was 2 years old and surely there would be new considerations, and sure enough, Perun posted a newer video with new considerations!

> Using italics was unnecessary

So a single word in italics in a different comment triggered downvotes on my first comment that didn't use italics? Seems like retaliatory downvoting of unrelated comments then. In any case, italics is used for emphasis and it's used commonly enough here on HN that its very limited markup supports it.

> So it wasn't the delivery after all, but the content?

you are being argumentative... which earns downvotes. you can word things differently to not be this way. Also, talking about being downvoted is against the posting guidelines, which will earn more downvotes. (See the links at the bottom)

> Punished for disagreement

see it as a signal from community moderation, this is not a free speech platform, content and conversation moderation is necessary online, unpopular opinions are often downvoted to avoid back and forth argumentation, so you may view it beyond moderation as feedback on your views, context dependent