He linked to his post in the comment. I presume that he believes that it explains why he disagrees. Iād consider that contribution to be deserving of not getting downvoted, but I see where you are coming from.
With that said, if he said, āI think we need regulationā and offered two lines of related thoughts and the same link, would people have downvoted his comment for not being useful and being impossible to engage with? Probably not, I suspect.
Anyway, I may be wrong in this case, but I still think that we probably shouldnāt be so quick to downvote comments like this (or at least a bit better). Especially for new community members.
I see a lot of stuff on the forum get no comments at all which seems worse than getting a few comments with opinions.
I often see low effort disagreeing comments on a post get downvoted but similarly low effort agreeable comment (e.g., this sounds great) get upvoted.
I am also influenced by other factors. Discussions I have had and seen where people I know who have been involved in EA for years said that they donāt like using the forum because it is too negative or because they donāt get any engagement on what write.
The expectation that lots of lurkers on the forum donāt feel comfortable sharing quick thoughts or disagreements because they could get downvotes.
My experiences writing posts that almost no-one commented on where I would have welcomed a 2-minute opinion comment made without arguments or a supposedly supporting link.
But of course other people might disagree with all of that or see different trade-offs etc.
He linked to his post in the comment. I presume that he believes that it explains why he disagrees. Iād consider that contribution to be deserving of not getting downvoted, but I see where you are coming from.
With that said, if he said, āI think we need regulationā and offered two lines of related thoughts and the same link, would people have downvoted his comment for not being useful and being impossible to engage with? Probably not, I suspect.
Anyway, I may be wrong in this case, but I still think that we probably shouldnāt be so quick to downvote comments like this (or at least a bit better). Especially for new community members.
I see a lot of stuff on the forum get no comments at all which seems worse than getting a few comments with opinions.
I often see low effort disagreeing comments on a post get downvoted but similarly low effort agreeable comment (e.g., this sounds great) get upvoted.
I am also influenced by other factors. Discussions I have had and seen where people I know who have been involved in EA for years said that they donāt like using the forum because it is too negative or because they donāt get any engagement on what write.
The expectation that lots of lurkers on the forum donāt feel comfortable sharing quick thoughts or disagreements because they could get downvotes.
My experiences writing posts that almost no-one commented on where I would have welcomed a 2-minute opinion comment made without arguments or a supposedly supporting link.
But of course other people might disagree with all of that or see different trade-offs etc.