ehBeth wrote:
roger wrote: If a single post is downrated enough, it collapses. One of those votes was my own. Maybe it's an old age thing, but I find myself becoming less tolerant of direct, personal insults, 'specially when they turn up in almost every post.
It isn't about opposing viewpoints.
this is what Robert's asked us to do, so I'm right in there thumbing down the insults
fewer on ignore, a few more being thumbed down
that way, newbies who haven't adjusted their settings aren't exposed to the nastiness
"quote" the nastiness and I'll do the same - still following Robert's suggestion/request
say something I don't agree with - but say it in a sensible way? as likely as not, I'll thumb it up. It's not about the comment, but the presentation.
What she said....though I generally just avoid threads with serial offenders in them.
But, I try and do it a bit more for the reasons Beth gave.
As for folk who go about down-grading perfectly reasonable and helpful comments, that's been around as long as I have known sites on the net where it could be done.
For example, there was/were somebod/ies on Abuzz who clearly spent HOURS a day down-grading people.
I think it's just like gravity...a weak force but universal. I assume it makes some folk feel good.
Shrugs.
