Oh, yeah, there’s maybe another crux between us—while I buy the argument that a policy of silently downvoting this class of comment may be more sustainable in the long run, I don’t share your instincts re: demon threads (to the point that I’m relatively dismayed that that label for them is starting to stick, because it implies hopelessness or helplessness or external-locus-of-control that I don’t feel). My approach to threads like those is maybe best summed up by “Let the Light win, and if trouble comes of it … let the Light win again.”
EDIT: Also, I’m pretty sure other up- and downvotes are in the mix by now, because I’ve seen it at a lot of other scores in the interim. I think −4 and 0 and −6.
Oh, yeah, there’s maybe another crux between us—while I buy the argument that a policy of silently downvoting this class of comment may be more sustainable in the long run, I don’t share your instincts re: demon threads (to the point that I’m relatively dismayed that that label for them is starting to stick, because it implies hopelessness or helplessness or external-locus-of-control that I don’t feel). My approach to threads like those is maybe best summed up by “Let the Light win, and if trouble comes of it … let the Light win again.”
EDIT: Also, I’m pretty sure other up- and downvotes are in the mix by now, because I’ve seen it at a lot of other scores in the interim. I think −4 and 0 and −6.