@engineer,
Nonsense Engineer. By "heinous" you mean that they disagree with the progressive clique. That is just another way of saying that people shouldn't dissent. Sure, there are some truly "heinous posts" here that do get thumbed down... but
there are also posts that are perfectly reasonable that get thumbed down because they don't have the "correct" point of view.
- Posts that take a progressive point of view are thumbed up, no matter how unreasonable they are.
- Posts that are nasty, or personal attacks against someone outside of the progressive point of view are thumbed up.
People love a good personal attack as long as it is against an ideological outsider. The high thumb scores I have seen have gone to posts that were nothing but nasty name calling.
- Posts are often thumbed down based on the person who wrote them rather than the how well-thought out the point of view.
Show me an example of a post from someone making a point outside ideological bubble that has a high thumbs score.
People don't get thumbed up for making good arguments or for acting civilly. They get thumbed up for having the "correct" opinions no matter how poorly reasoned or nasty the posts are.
Can you show me a post that you thought was especially well reasoned even though you disagree with the ideological position? Have you ever thumbed up such a post?