Comments with both these characteristics tend to get downvoted, but if you cut back on one or the other you should get better responses.
I’d just like to note that comments informed by the relevant background but condescending and negative are often voted down as well. Though Annoyance seems to have relatively high karma anyway.
I don’t think that case is crystal-clear, could you explain this a bit more?
Looking at DS3618′s comments, he (I estimate gender based on writing style and the demographics of this forum and of the CMU PhD program he claims to have entered) had some good (although obvious) points regarding peer-review and Flare. Those comments were upvoted.
The comments that were downvoted seem to have been very negative and low in informed content.
He claimed that calling intelligent design creationism “creationism” was “wrong” because ID is logically separable from young earth creationism and incorporates the idea of ‘irreducible complexity.’ However, arguments from design, including forms of ‘irreducible complexity’ argument, have been creationist standbys for centuries. Rudely chewing someone out for not defining creationism in a particular narrow fashion, the fashion advanced by the Discovery Institute as part of an organized campaign to evade court rulings, does deserve downvoting. Suggesting that the Discovery Institute, including Behe, isn’t a Christian front group is also pretty indefensible given the public info on it (e.g. the “wedge strategy” and numerous similar statements by DI members to Christian audiences that they are a two-faced organization).
This comment implicitly demanded that no one note limitations of the brain without first building AGI, and was lacking in content.
DS3618 also claims to have a stratospheric IQ, but makes numerous spelling and grammatical errors. Perhaps he is not a native English speaker, but this does shift probability mass to the hypothesis that he is a troll or sock puppet.
He says that he entered the CMU PhD program without a bachelor’s degree based on industry experience. This is possible, as CMU’s PhD program has no formal admissions requirements according to its document. However, given base rates, and the context of the claim, it is suspiciously convenient and shifts further probability mass towards the troll hypothesis. I suppose one could go through the CMU Computer Science PhD student directory to find someone without a B.S. and with his stated work background to confirm his identity (only reporting whether there is such a person, not making the anonymous DS3618′s identity public without his consent).
I’d just like to note that comments informed by the relevant background but condescending and negative are often voted down as well. Though Annoyance seems to have relatively high karma anyway.
I agree. See DS3618 for a crystal-clear example.
I don’t think that case is crystal-clear, could you explain this a bit more?
Looking at DS3618′s comments, he (I estimate gender based on writing style and the demographics of this forum and of the CMU PhD program he claims to have entered) had some good (although obvious) points regarding peer-review and Flare. Those comments were upvoted.
The comments that were downvoted seem to have been very negative and low in informed content.
He claimed that calling intelligent design creationism “creationism” was “wrong” because ID is logically separable from young earth creationism and incorporates the idea of ‘irreducible complexity.’ However, arguments from design, including forms of ‘irreducible complexity’ argument, have been creationist standbys for centuries. Rudely chewing someone out for not defining creationism in a particular narrow fashion, the fashion advanced by the Discovery Institute as part of an organized campaign to evade court rulings, does deserve downvoting. Suggesting that the Discovery Institute, including Behe, isn’t a Christian front group is also pretty indefensible given the public info on it (e.g. the “wedge strategy” and numerous similar statements by DI members to Christian audiences that they are a two-faced organization).
This comment implicitly demanded that no one note limitations of the brain without first building AGI, and was lacking in content.
DS3618 also claims to have a stratospheric IQ, but makes numerous spelling and grammatical errors. Perhaps he is not a native English speaker, but this does shift probability mass to the hypothesis that he is a troll or sock puppet.
He says that he entered the CMU PhD program without a bachelor’s degree based on industry experience. This is possible, as CMU’s PhD program has no formal admissions requirements according to its document. However, given base rates, and the context of the claim, it is suspiciously convenient and shifts further probability mass towards the troll hypothesis. I suppose one could go through the CMU Computer Science PhD student directory to find someone without a B.S. and with his stated work background to confirm his identity (only reporting whether there is such a person, not making the anonymous DS3618′s identity public without his consent).
I strongly doubt that person counts as “informed by the relevant background”.
I considered that, which is why I said that the responses would be “better.”