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Oh come on. It was voted up. Let the users decide

• tptacek 9y ago
  If votes were all that mattered, there'd be a lot more cat pictures on the front page, too. This is the oldest argument on the site, and it is long-settled.
  • coherentpony 9y ago
    And this, the 'lowest common denominator' counter-argument, is the oldest counter-argument to the oldest argument. If your argument that making the oldest argument means that it holds no water, then this logic should apply to the oldest counter-argument, too.
    • tptacek 9y ago
      I read this a couple times and still don't follow it. Would a bunch of cites to the moderators saying what I just said help clear this up for you?
      • coherentpony 9y ago
        You needn't bother; I was being partially facetious. Although, if you were prepared to do that you might have just done it to begin with. Or better yet, let the moderators deal with the post. The irony of myself getting involved certainly isn't lost on me.
        • tptacek 9y ago
          Within bounds, they'd rather the community moderate itself. There aren't many moderators. The guidelines are in part an exercise in getting the community to reasonably handle most of this stuff autonomously. Noodling meta is generally bad, but this story is actually inappropriate for the site, and I'm generally comfortable hijacking inappropriate stories for meta.