I’m worried that XiXi posted this link expressly as an example of the sort of thing that the SIAI should be engaging in and then when the author came over here, his comments got quickly downvoted. This is not an effective recipe for engagement.
Hey, if people choose to downvote my replies, either because they disagree or just plain don’t like me, that’s their thing. I’m not all that easy to scare with a few downvotes… =)
Do you think the comments themselves ought not have been downvoted? Or just that, regardless of the value of the comments, the author ought not have been?
If the former, that seems a broader concern. If you have a sense of what it is about them that the community disliked that it ought not have disliked, it might be valuable to articulate that sense and why a different metric would be preferable.
If the latter, I’m not sure that’s a bad thing, nor am I sure that “fixing” it doesn’t cause more problems than it resolves.
I’m worried that XiXi posted this link expressly as an example of the sort of thing that the SIAI should be engaging in and then when the author came over here, his comments got quickly downvoted. This is not an effective recipe for engagement.
Hey, if people choose to downvote my replies, either because they disagree or just plain don’t like me, that’s their thing. I’m not all that easy to scare with a few downvotes… =)
Do you think the comments themselves ought not have been downvoted? Or just that, regardless of the value of the comments, the author ought not have been?
If the former, that seems a broader concern. If you have a sense of what it is about them that the community disliked that it ought not have disliked, it might be valuable to articulate that sense and why a different metric would be preferable.
If the latter, I’m not sure that’s a bad thing, nor am I sure that “fixing” it doesn’t cause more problems than it resolves.
Wolf!