This is a properly controversial comment and I find this confusing. Could someone who’s down-voted it explain their reasoning for doing so? My best guess is the first sentence: “I haven’t finished reading this post yet, but one thing jumped out at me, which is that…” My best guess is that we have a norm against responding before reading the entire post, or that comments that start off that way often end up being vapid or clearly wrong.
For the record, I (of course) finished reading the post shortly after posting the grandparent comment (and prior to posting all my subsequent comments in this thread). Nothing in the rest of the post changed my view on this topic, nor the relevance of my comment.
This is a properly controversial comment and I find this confusing. Could someone who’s down-voted it explain their reasoning for doing so? My best guess is the first sentence: “I haven’t finished reading this post yet, but one thing jumped out at me, which is that…” My best guess is that we have a norm against responding before reading the entire post, or that comments that start off that way often end up being vapid or clearly wrong.
For the record, I (of course) finished reading the post shortly after posting the grandparent comment (and prior to posting all my subsequent comments in this thread). Nothing in the rest of the post changed my view on this topic, nor the relevance of my comment.