This is what motivated the insults in the first place, you’ve got the chain of causality backwards.
Or there’s a feedback loop, where someone downvotes you, you then insult people, then more people downvote you for the insults, then you insult people some more for those downvotes, which causes even more people to downvote you… and so forth.
I expect this is partially true but this isn’t what I’m concerned with.
I’m concerned with the people for whom this is false, the people who are -repping everything I write. I’m also concerned with the people who are specifically targeting my posts and following me around and criticizing everything I write, and the fact that there’s half a dozen people who are plus repping everyone who says anything which doesn’t agree with my position, and that I have to argue against so many different people to support a theory that I think is pretty straightforward and is probably true.
You seem to currently have exactly one downvoted comment outside the HPMOR discussion and that at only −1. What makes you think the effects you see aren’t simply a result of people actively participating in these threads noticing and responding to comments they deem poorly supported? No following around required.
As for the downvotes, I suspect an overwelming majority of them result from your adversarial reactions to criticism, not the HPMOR content. How many downvotes had this received before you added this edit?
What the hell with the random neg reps, seriously. This site actually has worse and stronger and more irrational groupthinking than other sites I visit. This is bizarre and unhealthy, I think I might not comment on here anymore, although I’m not really sure yet because the quality of the actual posts is much better although the comments are worse.
Or there’s a feedback loop, where someone downvotes you, you then insult people, then more people downvote you for the insults, then you insult people some more for those downvotes, which causes even more people to downvote you… and so forth.
I expect this is partially true but this isn’t what I’m concerned with.
I’m concerned with the people for whom this is false, the people who are -repping everything I write. I’m also concerned with the people who are specifically targeting my posts and following me around and criticizing everything I write, and the fact that there’s half a dozen people who are plus repping everyone who says anything which doesn’t agree with my position, and that I have to argue against so many different people to support a theory that I think is pretty straightforward and is probably true.
You seem to currently have exactly one downvoted comment outside the HPMOR discussion and that at only −1. What makes you think the effects you see aren’t simply a result of people actively participating in these threads noticing and responding to comments they deem poorly supported? No following around required.
As for the downvotes, I suspect an overwelming majority of them result from your adversarial reactions to criticism, not the HPMOR content. How many downvotes had this received before you added this edit?
Edited per thomblake’s suggestion.
You should remove the word “EDIT” from your quote, as it makes the comment harder to parse and isn’t necessary in context.