On the one hand, I upvoted this because there is no reason for this post to be in the negatives.
Seconded.
I don’t see why anyone would downvote a post that does a great job at summarizing conclusions of a paper, even if they don’t agree with the content of said paper.
I think the community is hurting itself by punishing the effort gjm put into writing this, and he doesn’t even say anywhere that he supports these findings personally.
It’s not “the community”. It’s The Artist Formerly Known As Eugine_Nier and his army of sockpuppets.
(Therefore, by the way, I don’t feel punished by the downvotes. One consequence of Eugine’s behaviour is that I now assume almost all downvotes I get are Eugine being Eugine and convey zero information about the actual quality of what I’ve written. He’s therefore made it almost impossible for anyone actually to change my behaviour or hurt my feelings by downvoting me. But at this point I’m not sure he has any actual coherent goals in his downvoting. It’s more like a habit, or a scream of rage.)
I guess you can assume that EN auto-downvotes by X and just adjust the origin down by that amount… eg your comment is at −8 - which (assuming EN downvotes by −10) means it’s actually really at +2
Seconded.
I don’t see why anyone would downvote a post that does a great job at summarizing conclusions of a paper, even if they don’t agree with the content of said paper.
I think the community is hurting itself by punishing the effort gjm put into writing this, and he doesn’t even say anywhere that he supports these findings personally.
It’s not “the community”. It’s The Artist Formerly Known As Eugine_Nier and his army of sockpuppets.
(Therefore, by the way, I don’t feel punished by the downvotes. One consequence of Eugine’s behaviour is that I now assume almost all downvotes I get are Eugine being Eugine and convey zero information about the actual quality of what I’ve written. He’s therefore made it almost impossible for anyone actually to change my behaviour or hurt my feelings by downvoting me. But at this point I’m not sure he has any actual coherent goals in his downvoting. It’s more like a habit, or a scream of rage.)
I guess you can assume that EN auto-downvotes by X and just adjust the origin down by that amount… eg your comment is at −8 - which (assuming EN downvotes by −10) means it’s actually really at +2