An established user like you ought to know not to comment this way. First, the site guidelines explicitly ask you not to post dross like "I smell bots and/or troll farmers". Such comments are nearly always pure imagination, as indeed was the case here, and they poison the commons. I've asked people a thousand times not to post like that (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...) but I shouldn't have to ask you.
Second, the guidelines ask you not to post about the voting on comments—which never does any good and makes boring reading. In fact, the comment wasn't downvoted at all. It was killed by software; I'm not sure yet why.
Third, if you see a [dead] comment that shouldn't be dead, you should vouch for it (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or email us so we can fix the problem. Obviously we would unkill a comment like that as soon as we know about it—if that isn't obvious to you, note the site guideline that says "Assume good faith".
Fourth, you shouldn't be copy/pasting in HN threads. It lowers the signal/noise ratio. Since users have vouched for the comment and restored it, your post here just adds noise.
Second, the guidelines ask you not to post about the voting on comments—which never does any good and makes boring reading. In fact, the comment wasn't downvoted at all. It was killed by software; I'm not sure yet why.
Third, if you see a [dead] comment that shouldn't be dead, you should vouch for it (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or email us so we can fix the problem. Obviously we would unkill a comment like that as soon as we know about it—if that isn't obvious to you, note the site guideline that says "Assume good faith".
Fourth, you shouldn't be copy/pasting in HN threads. It lowers the signal/noise ratio. Since users have vouched for the comment and restored it, your post here just adds noise.