JubilantJaguar , 4 hours ago

Semi-tangential. Every time I get downvoted, I move an inch closer to the exit door of this community.

I’m talking about comments rather than posts, of course. And it should go without saying that the comments in question do not contain factual errors or even rudeness. Just pure opinion, expressed civilly.

Downvoting is, almost always, poisonous behavior in an online community. It is just as poisonous as saying “Shut up” to someone in a real-life social situation.

IMO the corporate social networks get this fact better than the literalist geeky types and other well-meaning idealists to be found in this forum.