I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the details of upvoting and downvoting—karma works as a rough filter for comment quality, but it has it’s flaws, and paying more attention to karma doesn’t reduce those flaws. So as a general rule, I don’t get too worked up about what gets upvoted and what gets downvoted, unless I see a really unhealthy pattern (which I haven’t seen yet).
In this specific case, I don’t see a big problem—wedfrid points out what he sees as the biggest flaw in your reasoning, and the upvoters (which don’t include me) probably agreed that that was a big flaw without needing any extra explanation (and I agree).
If you say “X is true, therefore blablabla”, and most people would tend to believe that X is false, it seems reasonable to attract attention on that point—not necessarily providing a proof of non-X, but just pointing out “hey you’re taking as a premise something most people here would disagree with, couldn’t you at least give a bit more reasons for that?”.
Yes, he didn’t phrase it as politely, but your EXCESSIVE use of SHOUTING doesn’t exactly encourage polite answers.
I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the details of upvoting and downvoting—karma works as a rough filter for comment quality, but it has it’s flaws, and paying more attention to karma doesn’t reduce those flaws. So as a general rule, I don’t get too worked up about what gets upvoted and what gets downvoted, unless I see a really unhealthy pattern (which I haven’t seen yet).
In this specific case, I don’t see a big problem—wedfrid points out what he sees as the biggest flaw in your reasoning, and the upvoters (which don’t include me) probably agreed that that was a big flaw without needing any extra explanation (and I agree).
If you say “X is true, therefore blablabla”, and most people would tend to believe that X is false, it seems reasonable to attract attention on that point—not necessarily providing a proof of non-X, but just pointing out “hey you’re taking as a premise something most people here would disagree with, couldn’t you at least give a bit more reasons for that?”.
Yes, he didn’t phrase it as politely, but your EXCESSIVE use of SHOUTING doesn’t exactly encourage polite answers.