[CrankyPants]

I'm curious to know just how the original comment didn't reek of Reddit's culture of vacuous pithiness.

Down-votes without discussion strike me as being against the generally productive atmosphere this place usually has.

[ordinary]

I imagine it was because your comment added no more to the discussion than his did. When the standard response to bad comments becomes posting more bad comments, any community with a productive athmosphere quickly goes down the drain.

[CrankyPants]

That's fair.

I'll do better.