However, I reiterate: it does not seem like the negative value of damage done in the time while an inappropriate comment is sitting there wholly unaddressed is taken seriously; the implicit model seems to be “everyone who saw it upvoted and not objected-to will also read and understand the corrected record later, thus reducing all lasting damage to zero,” and that does not seem at all true to me.
I endorse this.
However, I reiterate: it does not seem like the negative value of damage done in the time while an inappropriate comment is sitting there wholly unaddressed is taken seriously; the implicit model seems to be “everyone who saw it upvoted and not objected-to will also read and understand the corrected record later, thus reducing all lasting damage to zero,” and that does not seem at all true to me.