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Now now, I'm surprised my light-hearted post caused such a backlash.

>Perhaps if you find it uninteresting you should refrain from commenting? Just a friendly suggestion. I mean, what value are you adding by saying you find it uninteresting?

For one, I can't downvote, so this is the only way I could express my disapproval. And different opinions are valuable in themselves, as you can't have rational, democratic discourse without them.

>In other words, they are identical, which is why they look identical. DUH!

That doesn't even disprove what I said, rather affirms it. It's like saying "The emperor is nude, that's why he seems to have no clothes. DUH!".



> And different opinions are valuable in themselves, as you can't have rational, democratic discourse without them.

No one minds different opinions. But people do want a bit more substance in those opinions so that there can be some kind of discussion.

> I can't downvote, so this is the only way I could express my disapproval.

Not upvoting this article, but upvoting other articles, would have been one way to express disapproval.


Well, didn't my previous post have substance? It's like everything I say nowadays gets buried. I'm going to guess it's power users trying to silence the small fry.


Your first post in this thread was empty. Unfortunately there is a kind of "pile on" effect, where all your posts in this thread get downvoted even if those posts don't deserve a downvote.

Hopefully that will correct after a few hours - other people will upvote any incorrectly downvoted comments.


>> It's like saying "The emperor is nude, that's why he seems to have no clothes. DUH!".

Exactly. Stating the obvious on a site known for intelligent discussions is frowned upon.




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