Man, the downvotes is hard in here. In case everyone couldn't tell I think that ...

dragonwriter · on July 8, 2015

> In case everyone couldn't tell I think that the incessant posting of "embrace, extend, extinguish" are really childish so I replied childishly. Do we need a sarcasm tag?

If you think a post is childish, downvote it and move on. If you respond in kind, expect to be downvoted. It doesn't make sense to decrease the signal-to-noise ratio in response to a post whose main problem is that it is decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio.

sudioStudio64 · on July 8, 2015

I don't have enough karma to downvote comments...but thanks for rubbing it in though. That's a beautiful tall horse your on by the way.

This particular comment got flagged, which is great. That being said, I can't count the number of times I've had someone reply to me with "Switch to Linux"...and I can't downvote that. Signal to noise?

The rules are unevenly applied. For instance, a couple of weeks ago one of those "Isn't RMS Awesome!" posts came up. I expressed a sentiment that was counter to the glowing praise people where heaping on the guy's article. I wasn't rude, but I do disagree with the guys positions on somethings and expressed that. It started being downvoted immediately...I was close to 200 at that point so I actually wrote a BS set of pablum replies and they were upvoted so I regained the karma.

Its frustrating.

PhantomGremlin · on July 8, 2015

I can't count the number of times I've had someone reply to me with "Switch to Linux"...and I can't downvote that.

FWIW I don't think people are allowed to downvote replies to their posts. At least I can't, maybe I could after getting even more karma?