I don't know why you got DVed for that. So would be more common in this sentence than that where I'm from. But either way they are used interchangeably in this context.
I once complained about a stupid mistake on the Portuguese course, and someone got so butthurt that they created some sockpuppet accounts and wrote a script to use them to downvote my every comment automatically, so that I wouldn't have the pleasure of helping people any more.