Don't sweat it. None of us will lay upon our death-beds wishing we had scored more points in an internet popularity contest.
Sometimes a downvote is because you made a salient and equitable point that threatened someone's cookie jar, an angry conservative enraged that someone expressed a progressive view (and vice versa), some humourless bastard who failed or declined to recognise what you thought to be in obvious jest, or a narcissistic asshole incensed that you dared observe their poor behaviour. These you may consider to be upvotes in disguise.
Notwithstanding all this, I suspect you will also discover there's a strong current of support for those surgically dismantling yellow journalism.
Sometimes a downvote is because you made a salient and equitable point that threatened someone's cookie jar, an angry conservative enraged that someone expressed a progressive view (and vice versa), some humourless bastard who failed or declined to recognise what you thought to be in obvious jest, or a narcissistic asshole incensed that you dared observe their poor behaviour. These you may consider to be upvotes in disguise.
Notwithstanding all this, I suspect you will also discover there's a strong current of support for those surgically dismantling yellow journalism.