It could be sympathy, or a judgment that the poster shouldn’t be excessively discouraged from posting in the future.
Is this a behavior we want?
Sure, why not? We can always change things later if we start getting overrun by bad posts, and people still aren’t willing to vote them down into negative territory.
It could be sympathy, or a judgment that the poster shouldn’t be excessively discouraged from posting in the future.
Sure, why not? We can always change things later if we start getting overrun by bad posts, and people still aren’t willing to vote them down into negative territory.