What comes across as harsh to me: down voting discussion posts because they’re accidental duplicates/don’t fit some idea of what a discussion post is supposed to be, a lot of down voting that goes on in general, unbridled or curt disagreement (like grognor’s response to my post. You saw him cursing and yelling, right? I made this post because I thought the less wrong community could use optimization on the topics I wrote about, not because I wanted to antagonize anyone.)
Could you be more specific about what comes off as harsh to you?
If you’d rather address this as a private message, I’m still interested.
What comes across as harsh to me: down voting discussion posts because they’re accidental duplicates/don’t fit some idea of what a discussion post is supposed to be, a lot of down voting that goes on in general, unbridled or curt disagreement (like grognor’s response to my post. You saw him cursing and yelling, right? I made this post because I thought the less wrong community could use optimization on the topics I wrote about, not because I wanted to antagonize anyone.)
PM’d response. General agreement with John below (which I didn’t see until just now).