There’s a pretty good level of rational discussion here, better than in most online fora I know of.
Some people are pretty trigger-happy with the downvotes (and some get so worked up over political disagreements that they will go back and downvote many random unrelated comments of yours from the past—but that’s near-universally agreed to be bad and tends to get them banned eventually) but nowhere’s perfect. And I think the majority of downvotes are genuinely deserved, though I can’t see how anything in this thread deserves them.
There’s a pretty good level of rational discussion here, better than in most online fora I know of.
Some people are pretty trigger-happy with the downvotes (and some get so worked up over political disagreements that they will go back and downvote many random unrelated comments of yours from the past—but that’s near-universally agreed to be bad and tends to get them banned eventually) but nowhere’s perfect. And I think the majority of downvotes are genuinely deserved, though I can’t see how anything in this thread deserves them.