wedrifid comments on Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic.

[wedrifid]

Well, I’ve seen this happen to newbies who take contrarian positions.

I see it happen more to newbies who make incoherent arguments with a belligerent attitude. This is, we can hope, correlated with them taking contrarian positions. (If not we are doing something wrong.)