I understand your point, but I'm not worried about the actual points being added or subtracted from my karma. People here tend to continue up-voting something that's been up-voted or continue down-voting something that's been down-voted. I'm attempting to curb any further lack of real consideration for my comments due to the blind nature of many of the users here regarding voting etiquette. If you've seen me around here before you'll know that I often post comments that attempt to uphold what I consider to be the HN standard. Which is why I ended it with "if you have something constructive to add, say it." I realize some users may find this grating, but perhaps those users aren't the target audience for the remark to begin with. Thanks for the heads up though.

To add to that, if I were trolling or being rude or vicious I would not have edited to bring up the down-voting. I hate to see this site slip into the bad habit of down-voting legitimate and helpful points due to simple disagreement with the commenter. With so many new users coming to HN daily it's important to occasionally remind people that this isn't Reddit, it's not Digg, and it's not Slashdot.