FWIW the comments feel fine to me, but I’m guessing that many of the downvotes are partisan.
They felt to me like “comments that were theoretically fine, but they had the smell of ‘the first very slight drama-escalation that tends to lead to Demon Threads’”.
I suspect that your post might have more upvotes if there was agreement/disagreement karma for posts, not just comments.
FWIW the comments feel fine to me, but I’m guessing that many of the downvotes are partisan.
They felt to me like “comments that were theoretically fine, but they had the smell of ‘the first very slight drama-escalation that tends to lead to Demon Threads’”.
I suspect that your post might have more upvotes if there was agreement/disagreement karma for posts, not just comments.