Meta-note: I am surprised by the current karma rating of this question. At present, it is sitting at +9 points with 7 votes, but it would be at +2 with 6 votes w/o my strong upvote.
To those who downvoted, or do not feel inclined to upvote—does this question not seem like a good use of LW’s question system? To me it seems entirely on-topic, and very much the kind of thing I would want to see here. I found myself disagreeing with much of the text, but it seemed to be an honest question, sincerely asked.
Was it something about the wording (either of the headline or the explanatory text) that put you off?
I didn’t vote—it seems appropriate for LW, but didn’t have any links or references, so it seemed to be a reaction to an argument that I wasn’t familiar with. The bold text (only one line, so presumably the main point of the post) was dismissing something as a strawman without explaining why.
It did spawn some interesting conversation, so I’ve now upvoted it.
Meta-note: I am surprised by the current karma rating of this question. At present, it is sitting at +9 points with 7 votes, but it would be at +2 with 6 votes w/o my strong upvote.
To those who downvoted, or do not feel inclined to upvote—does this question not seem like a good use of LW’s question system? To me it seems entirely on-topic, and very much the kind of thing I would want to see here. I found myself disagreeing with much of the text, but it seemed to be an honest question, sincerely asked.
Was it something about the wording (either of the headline or the explanatory text) that put you off?
I didn’t vote—it seems appropriate for LW, but didn’t have any links or references, so it seemed to be a reaction to an argument that I wasn’t familiar with. The bold text (only one line, so presumably the main point of the post) was dismissing something as a strawman without explaining why.
It did spawn some interesting conversation, so I’ve now upvoted it.