If you were the first person to see such a post (where Yvain made such a stupid comment that you believed that it deserved to attract 26527 downvotes), would you, personally, downvote it for stupidity or would you upvote it for interestingness?
EDIT: I’d be interested in answers from others as well.
Given that I’ve never encountered a comment that stupid, I’m not sure my intuition is correct here. I mean, we’re approaching “huge number of dust specks” level here. For all I know, the post would be so horrifying that I would be physically unable to avoid downvoting it.
Given his track record—which is roughly estimated by his karma score—I would assume a lot of things before I assumed that Yvain had genuinely posted something that impressively stupid. (Hacker, friend at keys, misunderstanding, etc.) So I probably wouldn’t vote on it, but if followup comments made it clear that yes, it was Yvain, and yes, it was really that stupid, I’d downvote the followup.
If you were the first person to see such a post (where Yvain made such a stupid comment that you believed that it deserved to attract 26527 downvotes), would you, personally, downvote it for stupidity or would you upvote it for interestingness?
EDIT: I’d be interested in answers from others as well.
Given that I’ve never encountered a comment that stupid, I’m not sure my intuition is correct here. I mean, we’re approaching “huge number of dust specks” level here. For all I know, the post would be so horrifying that I would be physically unable to avoid downvoting it.
Given his track record—which is roughly estimated by his karma score—I would assume a lot of things before I assumed that Yvain had genuinely posted something that impressively stupid. (Hacker, friend at keys, misunderstanding, etc.) So I probably wouldn’t vote on it, but if followup comments made it clear that yes, it was Yvain, and yes, it was really that stupid, I’d downvote the followup.
I suspect I’d downvote it, but reply with “downvoted, but bravo!”