I think the issue is complicated and it definitely skirts the edges of mindkilling politics. But it’s an important issue (both to the world in general and to us in particular), and if it’s all possible for us to tackle in a respectful manner, we should.
We didn’t particularly successfully tackle the issue in the last few hundred commenter-hours devoted to it. I’m worried that there’s a comparatively small number of people who just really like talking about these topics, and they tend to dominate the voting because they’re a concentrated interest opposing the diffuse interest of site quality.
I think the issue is complicated and it definitely skirts the edges of mindkilling politics. But it’s an important issue (both to the world in general and to us in particular), and if it’s all possible for us to tackle in a respectful manner, we should.
We didn’t particularly successfully tackle the issue in the last few hundred commenter-hours devoted to it. I’m worried that there’s a comparatively small number of people who just really like talking about these topics, and they tend to dominate the voting because they’re a concentrated interest opposing the diffuse interest of site quality.