I didn't vote, but to answer your question, you couldn't possibly have done the "exact same thing" as a linux-specific userland exec technique and have it work as a DLL injection technique on Windows. I'm sure it could've been conceptually similar, but not identical, and maybe those differences would be interesting to discuss.
"Exact same thing" as in re-implemented a basic OS feature in user mode to bypass an intercepted feature. Obviously it can't be literally exactly the same thing, because that wouldn't be implementing something, but rather using existing source code.
I didn't vote either way until you edited your post to add the meta comment. I don't like posters discussing moderation of their posts (I find that discussion about themselves to be vain and distracting from the topic), and I feel gross and off topic myself talking about it even now.
I didn't comment about the voting itself, I asked what was wrong with my comment. There's a difference between "oh, I'm getting down-voted, this sucks" and "what's wrong with what I said?" The former is whining, while the latter invites discussion. If telling someone else what you think about their comment counts as "meta" discussion and is therefore boring then that kind of kills the purpose of a discussion forum.
Maybe one day HN will realise that giving the ability to downvote is pretty pointless and needlessly open to abuse.
That negative ability just promotes negativity itself and a bloody pia when I am reading a greyed out message because I am too stubborn to go into the settings and change defaults - so I just steam on thinking HN are using a relic of an ideology.
If you're part of a cult, and you're not allowed to eject someone from the cult, you can at least ignore them or walk away from them when they talk to you, if you don't agree with what they say/do. It's a way for the members of the cult to reinforce the ingroup's behaviors without having overt power over the group. For other people watching this behavior, it reinforces the need to align themselves with the larger group, to avoid the same fate.
The first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club.
You're just describing the behavior of every society ever.
I'm not sure where some folks got the idea that they could say whatever they wanted in whatever community they wanted and not expect any reactions, but that's clearly an inhuman expectation. I'm guessing that attitude is a byproduct of internet commenting.
I guess you could call society an "ingroup" or a "cult" like you're doing. It technically fits the definition. It also gives you a convenient victim complex to wave about whenever you feel like people aren't agreeing with you enough. But let's be honest: not every social pariah is a Galileo.