I can't speak for anyone else but personally I downvoted you for:
a) Telling people not to upvote something, and
b) Justifying that in terms of something I'd never heard of (what's this about lulzsec's claim?)
Most of the time when an article shows up on HN there's a bunch of comments criticising the article for being, in some way, incomplete or wrong. But generally they don't directly tell people not to upvote the article. If you wanna criticise the article just say "One important factor which this article doesn't mention is that LulzSec said the other day that [blah blah details for the uninitiated]"
a) Telling people not to upvote something, and
b) Justifying that in terms of something I'd never heard of (what's this about lulzsec's claim?)
Most of the time when an article shows up on HN there's a bunch of comments criticising the article for being, in some way, incomplete or wrong. But generally they don't directly tell people not to upvote the article. If you wanna criticise the article just say "One important factor which this article doesn't mention is that LulzSec said the other day that [blah blah details for the uninitiated]"