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Your comment is a good one. People are downvoting not because you aren't contributing, but because they disagree with you and are trying to silence your opinio
by jasonlotito 15y ago
Your comment is a good one. People are downvoting not because you aren't contributing, but because they disagree with you and are trying to silence your opinion. They forget that upvotes should be used to encourage discussion, and down votes used to remove comments that don't contribute. Hopefully, posting here will highlight your comment so others will take note.
- phaylon 15y agoIt might also be that "in an ideal world nobody would be stupid enough," "an enormously stupid idea" and "most ridiculous bullshit in human history" aren't really arguments, and thus not really further the conversation.
- jasonlotito 15y agoThat ignores the rest of the comment. So yes, if you ignore the comment as a whole, and choose to pick out specific parts of the comment, you can claim the entire comment worthless. But I disagree with that approach. With that approach, you've essentially become no better than someone who down votes someone for making a spelling mistake.
- phaylon 15y agoIn my mind there's a huge difference between spelling _mistakes_, and _purposefully_ setting up a negative and insulting tone. There's no need to ignore the rest of the comment, when you think the overall language will do more harm than good. I can accept that you find the language used to make a point not that important, but you should consider that not everyone might agree with that.