“Eliezer has been working really hard lately, and I think he should take a well-deserved and extremely long break before finishing the current storyline in Methods of Rationality.”
I think the context, and the quotation marks, are highly relevant. If the same comment were posted without quotes as a top-level comment in the HPMOR thread, I’d expect it to be downvoted to −3, but probably not beyond that, since that’s the threshold where most people stop seeing comments.
Everything about these characters and their strips is even more bizarre than “regular” Penny Arcade continuity with non sequiturs and Twisp speaking only in single word sentences. The duo was created out of Gabe and Tycho’s mystification that they were seemingly unable to create something that their readership would dislike
“Eliezer has been working really hard lately, and I think he should take a well-deserved and extremely long break before finishing the current storyline in Methods of Rationality.”
At +6 right now. It seems you fail at failing, Yvain. Fail harder.
I think the context, and the quotation marks, are highly relevant. If the same comment were posted without quotes as a top-level comment in the HPMOR thread, I’d expect it to be downvoted to −3, but probably not beyond that, since that’s the threshold where most people stop seeing comments.
Oh, well played, sir. Well played indeed.
Wow! Evil. Effective. Not to mention a great demonstration of the criticality of context.
Definitely deserves a link or mention in a newbie’s guide.
Reminds me of this
KILL MURDER KILL MURDER KILL MURDER KILL MURDER KILL