Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : So today I saw a post in Overwatch University after about an hour had its upvote/downvote counter still hidden, had zero comments, and reddit gold.  I was surprised to see that the post with seemingly no public response at the time of viewing had already gotten gold.  So I in jest posted the first comment on the post asking "did you gild yourself lul".  After about an hour I came back to see the post had spiked a little in popularity but my comment had struck a nerve with OP.  My comment had been downvoted into oblivion and OP had replied to me saying how hard they worked on it, how fucking awful the assertion would be if i was wrong, that its pretty scummy to pull shit like that and how I should keep my "witchhunty" comments to myself.  I saw the error in my ways and apologized stating that personally did see anything wrong with self advertising via gilding the post especially with an informative guide and that I thought I was finally viewing the phenomenon first hand.  I felt bad and was trying to make it clear that I wasn't trying to discredit OP merely attempting to point out something that I initially felt was obvious.  OP then again responded saying that they appreciated the apology but that comments had damaged their reputation and that my downvoted comment has been hidden mitigating the damage.  However I later noticed that something people shared my view in that OP did nothing wrong if they gilded their own post, but those comments were also downvoted even though they were in support of OP regardless of the situation.  Overall I feel bad for hijacking their post, but i feel a little brigaded in my attempts to soothe and remedy any hurt feelings.  So i guess again AITA for thinking that gilding one's own post isn't all that bad and suggesting someone did that after seeing a post with seemingly no exposure.

And if any one wants to see the post I can make an edit, but I don't know if thats against the rules, and I certainly don't want to counter brigade or make any more trouble/drama.