That seems like a good use of the upvote function, and I’m glad you try to do things that way. But my nit-picking brain generates a couple of immediate thoughts:
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a development you were concerned about was also one where you forgot* to apply your general rule. In practice I think upvotes track ‘I agree with this’ extremely strongly, even though lots of people (myself included) agree that ideally they shouldn’t.
In the hypothetical where there’s lots of community concern about the funds but people are happy they have a venue to discuss it, I expect the top-rated comments to be those expressing those concerns. This possibility is what I was trying to address in my next sentence:
Most of the top rated comments on his post, including at least one which you link to as raising concerns, say that they are positive about the idea.
*Not sure if ‘forgot’ is quite the right word here, just mirroring your description of my comment as ‘reminding’ you.
That seems like a good use of the upvote function, and I’m glad you try to do things that way. But my nit-picking brain generates a couple of immediate thoughts:
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a development you were concerned about was also one where you forgot* to apply your general rule. In practice I think upvotes track ‘I agree with this’ extremely strongly, even though lots of people (myself included) agree that ideally they shouldn’t.
In the hypothetical where there’s lots of community concern about the funds but people are happy they have a venue to discuss it, I expect the top-rated comments to be those expressing those concerns. This possibility is what I was trying to address in my next sentence:
*Not sure if ‘forgot’ is quite the right word here, just mirroring your description of my comment as ‘reminding’ you.