it’s obvious by his tone and wording that he has other motives, and that these are obvious enough to enough people that I expect this to cause many people’s guts to notice these motives and politically infect
How would you change this post to convey the same objections and points, but be less “infectious”?
I am prepared to take criticism into account and reword the article before it goes to the EA forum.
This sentiment indicates to me that LW needs a bit of a culture change. It’s a decent article, I feel informed by having read it. Probably not perfect and not a Yvain level insight about the world. But why do you want to downvote it? Couldn’t you just not upvote it?