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People aren't downvoting you because they disagree with you, they are downvoting you because your comment was poorly written and unconvincing.

nikolay 11y ago
It's still better than not bothering to take a stance, right? Time is limited, I work at the moment, past deadlines, etc. Often if you reply too late, nobody notices. I don't comment for vanity reasons, but for that one person that can appreciate my effort.
- 88e282102ae2e5b 11y ago
  > It's still better than not bothering to take a stance, right? No. It just makes the comments less valuable. I come to this site because of the diversity of insight and high quality of posts. No one is tallying the stances and declaring a "winner". 100,000 anti-vaxxer posts aren't going to make me an anti-vaxxer. One post that goes into the details of the molecular mechanisms that show how the chemicals in vaccines cause autism might (not that I expect it to happen, since it's baloney, but I hope you take my point).
  - nikolay 11y ago
    You didn't get what I mean - I don't care about you or everybody that I won't be able to help; I care about the one person who I would help. I also don't care about the value of my comments, the karma, and other such things. I'm not here to service or entertain - and that includes myself, too. Take it or leave it, but don't go postal on people who try to help someone. Regarding autism - "Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children" [0]. [0]: https://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2476187 https://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2476...
    - 88e282102ae2e5b 11y ago
      > but don't go postal on people who try to help someone I hope I didn't come off that way, that was not my intention. > I don't care about you or everybody that I won't be able to help; I care about the one person who I would help Yes - my point is that that person might have been me. If you have an insight into a truth and you want to share it, but share it ineffectively, then we all lose.

nikolay 11y ago

It's still better than not bothering to take a stance, right? Time is limited, I work at the moment, past deadlines, etc. Often if you reply too late, nobody notices. I don't comment for vanity reasons, but for that one person that can appreciate my effort.

88e282102ae2e5b 11y ago
> It's still better than not bothering to take a stance, right? No. It just makes the comments less valuable. I come to this site because of the diversity of insight and high quality of posts. No one is tallying the stances and declaring a "winner". 100,000 anti-vaxxer posts aren't going to make me an anti-vaxxer. One post that goes into the details of the molecular mechanisms that show how the chemicals in vaccines cause autism might (not that I expect it to happen, since it's baloney, but I hope you take my point).
- nikolay 11y ago
  You didn't get what I mean - I don't care about you or everybody that I won't be able to help; I care about the one person who I would help. I also don't care about the value of my comments, the karma, and other such things. I'm not here to service or entertain - and that includes myself, too. Take it or leave it, but don't go postal on people who try to help someone. Regarding autism - "Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children" [0]. [0]: https://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2476187 https://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2476...
  - 88e282102ae2e5b 11y ago
    > but don't go postal on people who try to help someone I hope I didn't come off that way, that was not my intention. > I don't care about you or everybody that I won't be able to help; I care about the one person who I would help Yes - my point is that that person might have been me. If you have an insight into a truth and you want to share it, but share it ineffectively, then we all lose.