Personal example: I once asked on the linguistics subreddit why desceiptivist linguistics were preferred to prescriptivist and was downvoted to hell and back. The only replies were to call me a racist. I never got an answer, and I still don’t know. So voting is not the end-all be-all of forum mechanics.

I’mma have to call bullshit here, unless there just so happened to be a different person using the name quindraco on Reddit who asked this very question.

• Your question was answered.
• You may have gotten downvotes, but it was certainly not “to hell and back” – your post is currently sitting at +18.
• Not a single person called you racist, even after you compared descriptivism to literal genocide.