What are the disagreement votes for[1], given that my comment is made of questions and a statement of confusion? What are the voters disagreeing about?
(I’ve seen this in the past as well, disagreement votes on my questioning comments, so figure I’d finally ask what people have in mind when’re voting like this.)
Didn’t disagree vote myself, but I think there’s a linguistic pattern of ‘just asking questions’ that is used to signal disagreement while also evading interrogation yourself. At first glance, your comment may be reading that way to others, who then hastily smash the disagree button to signal disagreement with the position they think you’re implying (even though you were really genuinely just asking questions).
I see this happen a lot, where folks mismodel someone’s epistemic state or tacking when, really, the person is just confused and trying to explicate the conditions of their confusion. In the broader world, claiming to be confused about something is a common tactic for trying to covertly convince someone of your position.
What are the disagreement votes for[1], given that my comment is made of questions and a statement of confusion? What are the voters disagreeing about?
(I’ve seen this in the past as well, disagreement votes on my questioning comments, so figure I’d finally ask what people have in mind when’re voting like this.)
2 votes totally −3 agreement, at the time of this writing
Didn’t disagree vote myself, but I think there’s a linguistic pattern of ‘just asking questions’ that is used to signal disagreement while also evading interrogation yourself. At first glance, your comment may be reading that way to others, who then hastily smash the disagree button to signal disagreement with the position they think you’re implying (even though you were really genuinely just asking questions).
I see this happen a lot, where folks mismodel someone’s epistemic state or tacking when, really, the person is just confused and trying to explicate the conditions of their confusion. In the broader world, claiming to be confused about something is a common tactic for trying to covertly convince someone of your position.
I’m guessing they are something like “I disagree that this is the right question to be asking.”