...you are going to get downvoted. This is because people who speak English as a first language understand you to mean "this is stupid, like a retard". They don't understand you to mean "this is delayed, like a watch mechanism would be adjusted".
You can keep arguing that you didn't mean what you said, but at least two people are telling you how your words are being interpreted.
I would be a sad excuse of a being if I feared what some people on a random forum will think of me, or "downvote" me in some arbitrary, imaginative system. The entire thing is a delusion.
Not singling out anyone in particular but I'm a formed adult and have been for several decades, and I do not require upbringing, id est, anyone telling me how to behave or what not to write.
I will write it how I want and I shall not fear arbitrary decisions based on some arbitrary policies someone somewhere thought up. If that gets me down-voted or even banned, I will not let it bother me, as life does not revolve around arbitrary websites trying to tell one how to behave and think and I will damn myself into oblivion before I allow someone to impose such a thing on me. Lest we forget: I'm the only one who decides that, and I'm not allowing anyone to control my thinking or writing.
