I understand your frustration. Folks will tend to respond confidently in ways that align with their beliefs, often without reading the source or consulting any

I understand your frustration. Folks will tend to respond confidently in ways that align with their beliefs, often without reading the source or consulting any external material. They'll just say whatever. And those are the hard-working ones. Lazy disagreement just arrives as downvotes. One way I've found to mitigate this is citing specific quotes and sources (that they should be aware of already if commenting), which often mitigates this effect, but commenting is nevertheless fraught. It basically amounts to defensive writing a lot of the time. I keep coming back because I do think there are a bunch of us who do read, have expertise, and are here because we're curious and want to learn from others. But wading through the noise comes with that, sadly.