Hey, I admitted it. I see a number of others that didn't. Looks like a number of folks didn't read it, and there's a number of others that are taking great glee in pointing it out.

There's utility in promptly admitting when we're wrong.

Maybe people downvoted you for choosing to attempt humour in your mea culpa while not bothering to either thank the person who took time to answer you nor apologise for wasting their time. Though I'm not a mind reader, maybe that's not why they felt downvotes were warranted and only I had that thought.

Nah. I sincerely want to contribute, and deserved the downvotes. I could have deleted it, but didn't, because I think folks around here could probably use some object lessons, on what admitting error looks like.

I didn't waste anyone's time. They were more than happy to ding me. In fact, there's few things that geeks like doing, more than telling other geeks, they are wrong, so I maybe did a public service.

I'll do humor, and, if people want to get butthurt, they'll bang on the down button, just like they always have.

I'm not sure what you're saying "nah" to, you didn't seem happy that your (second) comment had been downvoted, I explained why people may have downvoted it (and why I agree with them, though it was already grey when I arrived). If you really don't care about the downvotes then that's good but you can skip commenting about them next time. If you do care about them, react by not posting comments that waste people's time rather than complaining about it.

(Unless I was wrong to read "I don't know why people are downvoting my mea culpa" into this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40961512 - but I can't think what other meaning it could have in the context of replying to your own comment which had been downvoted).

Regardless, I won't bother coming back to this thread as I've wasted enough time myself by choosing to comment to not care further.