[rurp]

I don't know, I read with `showdead` on and the vast majority of heavily downvoted comments are really bad. Lightly downvoted posts are more of a mixed bag, but honestly I think it's pretty fair overall. Nothing is perfect but this forum gets it right more often than any other popular one that I have spent a long time on.

[jemmyw]

I see a lot of downvoting for things people don't like that are factual/anecdotal. Downvote - pretty much saying "don't post that here because I don't want to hear it". If someone has done something you disagree with I think it's better to respond with a comment.

I don't check every dead comment I find, but the couple I've looked at this past week seemed OK. Dissenting opinion and not really out there.

I probably agree that it's better than other popular forums, but I disagree that the majority (I come across) should have been downvoted at all.

[soco]

Might be that the major evolution is that nowadays "dissenting" became to be an ass about it, because the others are just "snowflakes" unable to take my "well researched" opinion.

[m348e912]

I wasn't aware of the showdead option, thanks.