Good criticisms here, yet downvoted to −3. Do LWer’s really want to be less wrong?
There’s a general pattern here. Some of this comments are potentially good. But the general pattern either a) misses points b) doesn’t actually grapple with what he is claiming it does and c) is uncivil. C is a major issue. Obnoxious remarks like “But not informal frameworks, because your intuition says that formality is next to Godliness?” are going to get downvoted.
People are inclined to downvote uncvil comments for a variety of reasons: 1) They reinforce emotionalism on all members of a discussion, making the actual exchange of ideas less likely. 2) They make the individual making the comments much less likely to acknowledge when they are wrong (this is due to standard cognitive biases). 3) They make communities less pleasant.
Uncivil comments that support common beliefs are also voted down. LWians are not perfect and you shouldn’t be surprised if that is going to occur even more with comments that are uncivil and go against the consensus. In this particular case, it also doesn’t help that most of the uncivility is at the end of the comment, so one moves directly from reading the unproductive, uncivil remarks to seeing the vote button.
Good criticisms here, yet downvoted to −3. Do LWer’s really want to be less wrong?
There’s a general pattern here. Some of this comments are potentially good. But the general pattern either a) misses points b) doesn’t actually grapple with what he is claiming it does and c) is uncivil. C is a major issue. Obnoxious remarks like “But not informal frameworks, because your intuition says that formality is next to Godliness?” are going to get downvoted.
People are inclined to downvote uncvil comments for a variety of reasons: 1) They reinforce emotionalism on all members of a discussion, making the actual exchange of ideas less likely. 2) They make the individual making the comments much less likely to acknowledge when they are wrong (this is due to standard cognitive biases). 3) They make communities less pleasant.
Uncivil comments that support common beliefs are also voted down. LWians are not perfect and you shouldn’t be surprised if that is going to occur even more with comments that are uncivil and go against the consensus. In this particular case, it also doesn’t help that most of the uncivility is at the end of the comment, so one moves directly from reading the unproductive, uncivil remarks to seeing the vote button.