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Groupthink is a silly thing. Besides, if your comment gets downvoted, it becomes gray and much harder to read. It's unfortunate if thoughtful comments get "hid
by shiranaihito 17y ago
Groupthink is a silly thing. Besides, if your comment gets downvoted, it becomes gray and much harder to read.
It's unfortunate if thoughtful comments get "hidden" by downvotes.
- billswift 17y agoI usually check out grayed out comments on the posts I read; I have yet to see one that was "thoughtful". Maybe on posts I don't bother to read, because the topic doesn't particularly interest me, there are lots of thoughtful comments downvoted, but I haven't seen it happening.
- shiranaihito 17y agoI often check them too, just to see if they were actually offensive, or just victims of groupthink etc. Well, if by thoughtful comments you mean obviously intelligent, well thought-out and reasonable comments, then yes, you don't see (m)any of those downvoted. But sometimes people downvote comments where the author has clearly put some thought into them, and tried to contribute to the conversation. Those shouldn't be grayed out just for failing to be as spectacular as some of the others. Everyone does what they can. I do realize I'm trying to defend my own comments here too..