[Zambyte]

It doesn't highlight any issues. It effectively just says "you are wrong". It doesn't really add anything to the discussion.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[karlshea]

Well, that's your opinion. I believe I highlighted the main issues with your suggestion, and added exactly the same helpfulness to the discussion as an assertion that artists should rely on patrons to send them cryptocurrency to support themselves.

[belladoreai]

It highlights the issue that the suggested solution is a theoretic or academic solution which we theorize might work out some day, but is not currently a realistic solution for the need to provide food for artists to eat so that they could remain alive.

The fact that you disagree with the explanation due to ideological purity reasons is not grounds for downvoting it.

[Zambyte]

> the suggested solution is a theoretic or academic solution which we theorize might work out some day, but is not currently a realistic solution for the need to provide food for artists to eat so that they could remain alive.

These are all your words, not theirs. They didn't suggest this at all.

> The fact that you disagree with the explanation due to ideological purity reasons is not grounds for downvoting it.

This is true, but:

1) I didn't downvote it (I literally can't)

2) There are other good reasons to downvote it, such as what I linked.

Unless you have something more to say about cyrpto I think we should leave this here.

[karlshea]

> These are all your words, not theirs. They didn't suggest this at all.

I'm failing to understand how you could have read what I wrote and come to the conclusion I didn't suggest that, given that I literally said it was not realistic.