I think for comments that are hard to parse, it’s a bit more difficult since there is a lot of technical discussion on the site, and I at least try to only downvote something if I understood what it was trying to say, and then decided I didn’t like it. Only if a pattern emerges where I repeatedly have trouble parsing someone’s comments do I feel justified in downvoting or pointing that out.
I think a large fraction of the problem is just english proficiency, now that I am rereading them. Which is something I am very sympathetic to, having learned english as a second language myself. Some other fraction is just stuff that I expect could be fixed by activating a simple english spell check, like a lot of this comment.
I think for comments that are hard to parse, it’s a bit more difficult since there is a lot of technical discussion on the site, and I at least try to only downvote something if I understood what it was trying to say, and then decided I didn’t like it. Only if a pattern emerges where I repeatedly have trouble parsing someone’s comments do I feel justified in downvoting or pointing that out.
I think a large fraction of the problem is just english proficiency, now that I am rereading them. Which is something I am very sympathetic to, having learned english as a second language myself. Some other fraction is just stuff that I expect could be fixed by activating a simple english spell check, like a lot of this comment.