The effect of a downvote is that fewer people see the comment. If you think fewer people should see my comments, I can assist you with that by not posting them.
If you feel I’ve missed your point rather than understanding and disagreeing with it, feel free to articulate it more clearly. Your claim as I understood it was life is harder and crueler (for most people, most places) these days (than at some point in the past).
No, than the previous adjacent moments in past, not some random arbitrary point selected so far back in time that our lives would look radically different and the comparison between the two points becomes dubiously relevant.
I think you should continue to post comments and let everybody decide on them collectively, why would I want you to silence yourself on this particular topic? If you didn’t make this type of comment someone else would have and this branch of the conversation would likely have happened anyways. Now it has and people can upvote/downvote to reflect how they feel. I don’t know about you but I still read downvoted comments? I am a curious person and there are many like me!
Why would I not downvote a comment I consider missed the essential point on something I am passionate about and feel materially impacts us all?
The effect of a downvote is that fewer people see the comment. If you think fewer people should see my comments, I can assist you with that by not posting them.
If you feel I’ve missed your point rather than understanding and disagreeing with it, feel free to articulate it more clearly. Your claim as I understood it was life is harder and crueler (for most people, most places) these days (than at some point in the past).
No, than the previous adjacent moments in past, not some random arbitrary point selected so far back in time that our lives would look radically different and the comparison between the two points becomes dubiously relevant.
I think you should continue to post comments and let everybody decide on them collectively, why would I want you to silence yourself on this particular topic? If you didn’t make this type of comment someone else would have and this branch of the conversation would likely have happened anyways. Now it has and people can upvote/downvote to reflect how they feel. I don’t know about you but I still read downvoted comments? I am a curious person and there are many like me!