From the outside, you've been posting a lot of low effort comments. Take this one for example --- if the 'elaboration' was part of the first comment, it would

From the outside, you've been posting a lot of low effort comments. Take this one for example --- if the 'elaboration' was part of the first comment, it would have been solid. As it was, it only addressed people who already agreed with your unspoken conclusion. Yes, it's more effort to make the full comment the first time, but it makes for a better site overall. I comment here because I upvoted several of your comments on the Mike Godwin thread earlier today because I thought they were unfairly downvoted. But even in those cases, you probably could have prevented the downvotes if you'd spent a little more effort of making your case in the opening comment, rather than defending it in the followups. Your point of view is appreciated, so please stick around despite the downvotes. But at the same time, please take the effort to post higher quality initial comments so that you avoid most of those downvotes.