It’s dangerous to extrapolate too much from a single individual and I think you’ll find people will quite like this post overall if you give it a bit more time.
I agree with both of those points. But the reason I asked wasn’t because the strong downvote hurt my ego or something (it probably would’ve earlier in my Forum journey, but now I’ve posted a lot and gotten research jobs I’m happy with so I’m more protected from that). Rather, it was that I was just really confused as to why there was a strong downvote, so it suggested that there was something I was failing to understand, which might be important somehow.
(It’d be different if I made a post that I knew might be controversial for a particular reason, but hoped would be overall liked. Then if a downvote came in, it’d still contain new info, but I’d know what the info meant.)
(And it now turns out that the reason for the downvote was something I wouldn’t have easily guessed, and the info it turns out to have contained is interesting.)
Anyway, thanks for giving that info on ways in which this post was helpful for you—that’s good (and useful) to know!
I agree with both of those points. But the reason I asked wasn’t because the strong downvote hurt my ego or something (it probably would’ve earlier in my Forum journey, but now I’ve posted a lot and gotten research jobs I’m happy with so I’m more protected from that). Rather, it was that I was just really confused as to why there was a strong downvote, so it suggested that there was something I was failing to understand, which might be important somehow.
(It’d be different if I made a post that I knew might be controversial for a particular reason, but hoped would be overall liked. Then if a downvote came in, it’d still contain new info, but I’d know what the info meant.)
(And it now turns out that the reason for the downvote was something I wouldn’t have easily guessed, and the info it turns out to have contained is interesting.)
Anyway, thanks for giving that info on ways in which this post was helpful for you—that’s good (and useful) to know!