Whatever the results here, I want to use this opportunity to strongly object to all of the meta-scoring-discussion that I see more and more of ...
Editing your comment, or adding additional comments with things like "why the downvotes ... ?" or "not sure why I am being downvoted because ..." or "you can downvote all you want, but ..."
By all means edit posts and post followups and continue the discussion, but please, please let's stop injecting literal references to the scoring system into the conversation itself. It's distracting at best, and really narcissistic at worst.
I would greatly appreciate it if downvoters also added their explanation if it merits it.
OTOH, I've been downvoted a few times for things that, viewed from the outside, can be seen as flamebait-ish or useless discussion.
I've also had the opposite, people that, instead of downvoting, ask "did you answer the wrong post?" (has happened) or if I misunderstood the comment I was replying to (has also happened), and I greatly appreciate that.
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example of a comment where I was downvoted, and it was probably flamebait-ish
Editing your comment, or adding additional comments with things like "why the downvotes ... ?" or "not sure why I am being downvoted because ..." or "you can downvote all you want, but ..."
By all means edit posts and post followups and continue the discussion, but please, please let's stop injecting literal references to the scoring system into the conversation itself. It's distracting at best, and really narcissistic at worst.