No, I know for a fact that it's not reflective of HN as a whole. But I did find it funny if not tragic that it's fairly common place. The amount of upvotes my comment received (about 100) seems to confirm I'm not alone in thinking so too.

HN as a group does things that aren’t representative of most users.

So don’t take it the wrong way. A pedantic comment which is downvoted and flagged doesn’t represent you, but the fact someone said it is very much in the flow of HN’s community.