It was supposed to be ridiculously over-the-top to the point where someone somewhere might be amused by it. I guess that prediction was foolish.
In its original form it was unsupported. Now you’ve added support in a child comment or two, so it is no longer unsupported. I’d probably remove my admittedly petty but legitimate downvote for bad joke if EY hadn’t made it sound like downvote shouldn’t happen to that comment. Now I’ll have to think about whether I don’t care as much about the bad joke or am just subject to what passes for demagoguery in this crowd.
But you’ve no reason to care about my control over little karma point.
Yeah, I don’t care that much about being downvoted in general. If people didn’t like my writing or understand my intent, that is a perfectly acceptable reason for being downvoted and I will take that into account for future posts.
What I was piqued by is that people seemed to be downvoting me not primarily for a bad joke, but rather for not presenting a “prediction” formally.
It is said that bad jokes are downvoted. Subjectivity should be expected.
In its original form it was unsupported. Now you’ve added support in a child comment or two, so it is no longer unsupported. I’d probably remove my admittedly petty but legitimate downvote for bad joke if EY hadn’t made it sound like downvote shouldn’t happen to that comment. Now I’ll have to think about whether I don’t care as much about the bad joke or am just subject to what passes for demagoguery in this crowd.
But you’ve no reason to care about my control over little karma point.
Yeah, I don’t care that much about being downvoted in general. If people didn’t like my writing or understand my intent, that is a perfectly acceptable reason for being downvoted and I will take that into account for future posts.
What I was piqued by is that people seemed to be downvoting me not primarily for a bad joke, but rather for not presenting a “prediction” formally.