It is valid but I think it’s being downvoted because (a) Vasco posts the same point so often and so widely that some people come to view it as spam, (b) this is on a public forum and is the kind of view that is perfect to be used by bad-faith EA critics and journalists to paint EA in a negative light in media.
Although, to Vasco’s credit, this comment is much improved on the optics front compared to previous ones
And related to (a), experience teaches us that there’s a risk of derailing the discussion away from the topic of the original post. While posters are not entitled to control the discussion on their posts, I also don’t think there’s much value in hosting the soil-animal discussion on a bunch of different threads especially if it risks displacing other discussions.
I do not reflexively downvote Vasco’s comments on this topic, but here I think the connection to the topic of the post is too tenuous.
It is valid but I think it’s being downvoted because (a) Vasco posts the same point so often and so widely that some people come to view it as spam, (b) this is on a public forum and is the kind of view that is perfect to be used by bad-faith EA critics and journalists to paint EA in a negative light in media.
Although, to Vasco’s credit, this comment is much improved on the optics front compared to previous ones
And related to (a), experience teaches us that there’s a risk of derailing the discussion away from the topic of the original post. While posters are not entitled to control the discussion on their posts, I also don’t think there’s much value in hosting the soil-animal discussion on a bunch of different threads especially if it risks displacing other discussions.
I do not reflexively downvote Vasco’s comments on this topic, but here I think the connection to the topic of the post is too tenuous.