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A couple of days ago, I posted a question on the Game Development Q&A site. It got +6 votes but nobody could answer the question. However, there appeared to be a war of comments below the post, and this war was caused by a high-rep member who happened to hate the question I'd asked.

Basically, the whole conversation could be summarized by "The high-rep member trying to excuse his hateful comments and all the others trying to defend the question against him." What's more interesting is that the high-rep member even knew that his comments might be considered abusive and kept deleting them after a couple of minutes.

Back then I didn't really care about what was going on in the comment section. I just kept checking the page to see if an answer pops up. After a while, I got disappointed and left; 2 days later I came back to the question, and noticed that it was voted down 9 times, edited down to a point where the friendly tone of my question was removed (even though the question was crystal clear before the edition), and was closed as not constructive. Additionally, all the comments addressing the high-rep member as abusive were removed as well.

Now I understand the "Not Constructive" part (since my question was not really constructive), but the edition and the -9 vote downs makes me feel abused by high-rep members. Additionally, when I tried checking the report on the -9 votes, I noticed that the user was intentionally removed:

https://i.sstatic.net/dTIqY.png

Here's the link to the question I'd aksed: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/56689/3d-object-manipulation-frameworkhttps://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/56689/3d-object-manipulation-framework
The name of the high-rep member who started the comment war is among the people who closed the question. Now again, I have nothing to say against the question being not constructive (hence being closed), but voting it down intentionally and editing when there's no need to sounds unfair to me. What should I do in this situation?

A couple of days ago, I posted a question on the Game Development Q&A site. It got +6 votes but nobody could answer the question. However, there appeared to be a war of comments below the post, and this war was caused by a high-rep member who happened to hate the question I'd asked.

Basically, the whole conversation could be summarized by "The high-rep member trying to excuse his hateful comments and all the others trying to defend the question against him." What's more interesting is that the high-rep member even knew that his comments might be considered abusive and kept deleting them after a couple of minutes.

Back then I didn't really care about what was going on in the comment section. I just kept checking the page to see if an answer pops up. After a while, I got disappointed and left; 2 days later I came back to the question, and noticed that it was voted down 9 times, edited down to a point where the friendly tone of my question was removed (even though the question was crystal clear before the edition), and was closed as not constructive. Additionally, all the comments addressing the high-rep member as abusive were removed as well.

Now I understand the "Not Constructive" part (since my question was not really constructive), but the edition and the -9 vote downs makes me feel abused by high-rep members. Additionally, when I tried checking the report on the -9 votes, I noticed that the user was intentionally removed:

https://i.sstatic.net/dTIqY.png

Here's the link to the question I'd aksed: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/56689/3d-object-manipulation-framework
The name of the high-rep member who started the comment war is among the people who closed the question. Now again, I have nothing to say against the question being not constructive (hence being closed), but voting it down intentionally and editing when there's no need to sounds unfair to me. What should I do in this situation?

A couple of days ago, I posted a question on the Game Development Q&A site. It got +6 votes but nobody could answer the question. However, there appeared to be a war of comments below the post, and this war was caused by a high-rep member who happened to hate the question I'd asked.

Basically, the whole conversation could be summarized by "The high-rep member trying to excuse his hateful comments and all the others trying to defend the question against him." What's more interesting is that the high-rep member even knew that his comments might be considered abusive and kept deleting them after a couple of minutes.

Back then I didn't really care about what was going on in the comment section. I just kept checking the page to see if an answer pops up. After a while, I got disappointed and left; 2 days later I came back to the question, and noticed that it was voted down 9 times, edited down to a point where the friendly tone of my question was removed (even though the question was crystal clear before the edition), and was closed as not constructive. Additionally, all the comments addressing the high-rep member as abusive were removed as well.

Now I understand the "Not Constructive" part (since my question was not really constructive), but the edition and the -9 vote downs makes me feel abused by high-rep members. Additionally, when I tried checking the report on the -9 votes, I noticed that the user was intentionally removed:

https://i.sstatic.net/dTIqY.png

Here's the link to the question I'd aksed: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/56689/3d-object-manipulation-framework
The name of the high-rep member who started the comment war is among the people who closed the question. Now again, I have nothing to say against the question being not constructive (hence being closed), but voting it down intentionally and editing when there's no need to sounds unfair to me. What should I do in this situation?

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Abused by High-Rep members

A couple of days ago, I posted a question on the Game Development Q&A site. It got +6 votes but nobody could answer the question. However, there appeared to be a war of comments below the post, and this war was caused by a high-rep member who happened to hate the question I'd asked.

Basically, the whole conversation could be summarized by "The high-rep member trying to excuse his hateful comments and all the others trying to defend the question against him." What's more interesting is that the high-rep member even knew that his comments might be considered abusive and kept deleting them after a couple of minutes.

Back then I didn't really care about what was going on in the comment section. I just kept checking the page to see if an answer pops up. After a while, I got disappointed and left; 2 days later I came back to the question, and noticed that it was voted down 9 times, edited down to a point where the friendly tone of my question was removed (even though the question was crystal clear before the edition), and was closed as not constructive. Additionally, all the comments addressing the high-rep member as abusive were removed as well.

Now I understand the "Not Constructive" part (since my question was not really constructive), but the edition and the -9 vote downs makes me feel abused by high-rep members. Additionally, when I tried checking the report on the -9 votes, I noticed that the user was intentionally removed:

https://i.sstatic.net/dTIqY.png

Here's the link to the question I'd aksed: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/56689/3d-object-manipulation-framework
The name of the high-rep member who started the comment war is among the people who closed the question. Now again, I have nothing to say against the question being not constructive (hence being closed), but voting it down intentionally and editing when there's no need to sounds unfair to me. What should I do in this situation?