[bjourne]

Ah, you seem to have had a run in with the down-vote brigade. :) Not nearly as annoying as the close-vote brigade or the comment brigade though. It's not uncommon for them to nitpick on pointless details, ask for clarifications on issues already clarified, or demand that you include links in your question even though those would be totally redundant. Many seem to suffer from Jesus-complex. Apparently, its their job and people asking "bad" questions are not contributing only "stealing" their time. The underappreciated janitors without whom Stack Overflow would collapse...

My advice is to not take it personally and just move on. Ask on another exchange site if the question is important, or ask with a different set of tags so that the brigadiers won't see the question.

[Alain_Reve]

Thank for for making me laugh. What do you mean, "their job"? Are people actually getting paid to downvote?