Not responding to the main claim, cos mods have way more context on this than me, will defer to them.
think that’s a more pessimistic view than even my own!
Very plausibly. But pessimism itself isn’t bad, the question is whether it’s the sort of pessimism that leads to better content or the sort that leads to worse content. Where, again, I’m going to defer to mods since they’ve aggregated much more data on how your commenting patterns affect people’s posting patterns.
Not responding to the main claim, cos mods have way more context on this than me, will defer to them.
Very plausibly. But pessimism itself isn’t bad, the question is whether it’s the sort of pessimism that leads to better content or the sort that leads to worse content. Where, again, I’m going to defer to mods since they’ve aggregated much more data on how your commenting patterns affect people’s posting patterns.