Part of the back of my mind wondered if the comment was “bad enough” to be worth it, but then I realized it doesn’t really matter, because the tradeoff is average positive karma versus single negative karma. If you have an average karma of +3, then a single −50 will take an extremely long time to recover from, even if it was something silly like your comment being misinterpreted as hostile. On balance, I agree with you, but I thought it was worth sharing why.
I wanted to muse on this more:
Part of the back of my mind wondered if the comment was “bad enough” to be worth it, but then I realized it doesn’t really matter, because the tradeoff is average positive karma versus single negative karma. If you have an average karma of +3, then a single −50 will take an extremely long time to recover from, even if it was something silly like your comment being misinterpreted as hostile. On balance, I agree with you, but I thought it was worth sharing why.