Let me contribute my perspectives about the posts in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627749 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627749 mathg

Let me contribute my perspectives about the posts in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627749 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627749 mathgladiator's post: I would vote this down as being totally content-free. The words "late night orgies" do not make a comment hilarious, and other than that, his comment literally had nothing to say. lsb's post: I'd vote this down as being a reply to a useless post that doesn't contribute except to scold the parent. I don't think we need reminding that AIDS is a serious problem. I don't follow why it has 7 upvotes. Your first post: Downvoted. Again, no content. You just made the same off-hand remark about orgies that the grandparent made. Besides being pointless, it's also absurdly offensive and tasteless to respond to a serious comment about AIDS and rape in this tone. Your second post: Downvoted. Why are you replying to yourself? Why would you open a comment with an insult to the audience? What makes you think we want to read an impromptu lecture about the joy of sex? Look, all these posts have something in common. It's that they add absolutely zero value to the discussion. They aren't wise or informative, they don't clarify anything, and they're not funny. Elsewhere in the thread, although your posts were sometimes marginally off-topic, you clearly had something to say; e.g. your defense of paywalls on academic journals, and your back-and-forth about the value of HIV research outside of the human environment. Here, you have nothing to say. "Sex is great, everyone should have sex, it's nice if AIDS is gone" is not worth the time it takes to write or read. (It's ten times worse as a reply to a comment about rape.) Taking issue with these things is just a matter of filtering spam, not a matter of personal grudges.