I recently posted an answer which received a negative comment from someone, who was, in fact, not fully informed. **Getting negative comments isn't really a big deal**, (Let's face it: stack overflow is famous for its negative comments.) but it's an observation of mine that strongly worded negative comments (*By which I mean stuff like: "That's absolutely wrong!" or "That doesn't help, it hurts!" or "That's not correct at all!" but not necessarily outright hostile.*) seem lead others to quickly downvote after *summarily* reading the comment. There was another comment in response, which (correctly) disagreed with the negative comment and provided correction. I deleted my answer because I didn't want to lose rep, but I can't help but think that reactionary vote casting doesn't benefit the site.

Like the title says, have others observed this trend?