Just stop with downvotes altogether then, since even smaller amounts can be stressful. Allowing spammy no-value posters to drown out the few valuable comments is also bad for the community, but whatever.
What’s with the whole “shut up” routine (in your other comment)? You’re shaming yourself, here. Not going to engage with you anymore.
I’m going to answer your question despite you saying you won’t engage but: You can’t justify objecting to punishing someone for doing something technically not forbidden by the rules because there was no rule against at the time without also justifying the punishment if there’s no rule against the punishment.
eg “You can’t punish x for crime y because y isn’t actually against the rules” but “Punishing x for crime y” isn’t against the rules either. So either you want there to be outside of the rules systems for what people can and cannot do or not.
The same goes for my stress argument, it was mostly just turning your own argument around. Downvotes are SUPPOSED to be unpleasant. making a bad comment that gets downvoted should make you feel bad about making a bad comment. Good comments getting downvoted because you made a bad comment corrupts that system.
Spammy no value posters get downvoted plenty without mass downvoting campaigns.
Just stop with downvotes altogether then, since even smaller amounts can be stressful. Allowing spammy no-value posters to drown out the few valuable comments is also bad for the community, but whatever.
What’s with the whole “shut up” routine (in your other comment)? You’re shaming yourself, here. Not going to engage with you anymore.
I’m going to answer your question despite you saying you won’t engage but: You can’t justify objecting to punishing someone for doing something technically not forbidden by the rules because there was no rule against at the time without also justifying the punishment if there’s no rule against the punishment.
eg “You can’t punish x for crime y because y isn’t actually against the rules” but “Punishing x for crime y” isn’t against the rules either. So either you want there to be outside of the rules systems for what people can and cannot do or not.
The same goes for my stress argument, it was mostly just turning your own argument around. Downvotes are SUPPOSED to be unpleasant. making a bad comment that gets downvoted should make you feel bad about making a bad comment. Good comments getting downvoted because you made a bad comment corrupts that system.
Spammy no value posters get downvoted plenty without mass downvoting campaigns.
I think the question was less “please elaborate on your other comment”, and more “why did you think that “shut up” was a valuable thing to say?”
It probably wasn’t but it fit into the classic format of an apt put-down.