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Perhaps you've stopped writing them, but I still associate your username with high quality comments. Try not to care too much about the random downvotes, and p
by nkurz 11y ago
Perhaps you've stopped writing them, but I still associate your username with high quality comments. Try not to care too much about the random downvotes, and please keep writing extensive well-footnoted comments about the issues you care about. It's probably a small audience, but we are appreciative.
- jccc 11y agoThe problem with that is that you can't not care about them if you care about meaningful debate and conversation. The effect of downvotes is to push comments down and fade them away into the background. That should be the effect of filtering low-quality comments, but why should that be the effect of disagreement?
- jccc 11y agoMore to the point, is it not to your benefit to encounter and engage with quality points of view that differ from your own?
- nkurz 11y agoCertainly, and one can still benefit if the comment is slightly grayed out and lower on the page. I'm suggesting that allowing the asocial behavior of small number of random strangers to ruin your day is likely to result in lots of ruined days. Better, if you can mentally arrange it, is to treat some small number of downvotes as the price of admission rather than a personal attack, and to continue the conversation with those who are listening. The hard part is figuring out which downvotes are actually useful feedback, and which should be treated as random noise. This wasn't my point above, though. My point was that I like chimeracoder's long detailed comments, and would like him to keep writing them, regardless of the behavior he observes in others.