The down votes were others who had the same or a similar take. If you get one reply that explains clearly why they think your take is terrible and you get a dozen down votes and they get a dozen up votes it is safe to assume a dozen people agree with the person who replied and didn’t feel the need to repeat the same point. Even if their reply has less, it just means some people disagreed and didn’t bother replying.

It is the same as up votes being higher than the number of replies. There isn’t a need for everyone to post ‘same’ just because they agreed.