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Not necessarily. Taboo "karmassassination", what were you actually observing? One scenario is that some comments you make draw attention and people look over the recent N of your posts, judge them individually, but it turns out that the judgment is mostly negative. Another is that people who want to discourage a certain type of comments downvote multiple already-downvoted posts without paying too much attention, expecting that downvotes that are already present carry sufficient evidence in the context. Both cases result in surges of negative votes which remain sensitive to qualities of individual comments.
You're drifting from the topic, I'm not discussing a net perception of your participation, only explanations for the negatively judged contributions. Your writing them off as not-particularly-meaningful (effect of "karmassassination" rather than of comments' negative qualities) seems like a rationalization, given the observations above.
Like, I'm not trying to avoid the knowledge that I often make contributions to LessWrong that aren't well-received. It happens, more for me than for others. I was just pointing out that I've also noticed strict karmassassination sometimes, not necessarily often in my 2190 most recent comments. It's just a thing to take into account. The karmassassination I have experience with is often not of the sort that you describe. But I'm perfectly willing to accept such explanations sometimes, and I've already noticed that they explain a few big chunks lost a few months back.
I don't write all of them off as meaningless, of course! Didn't mean to imply that. Some comments just aren't positive contributions to LessWrong. It happens, and it happpens to me more than others. I'm not denying that at all.