I pretty much agree with the points you listed at the bottom, but...

I tend to look at people's home nodes to get an idea of who they are when a question seems a bit strange to me. And age, hence wisdom (one would hope), is not irrelevant; it's just often an unknown. I agree with you that many of the assumptions he made are incorrect, but that does not merit being buried because certain people enjoy the irony of downvoting someone because of their complaints/observations about too many upvotes.

For me, except in rarer cases such as repeated RTFM questions or ignoring previous answers, questions should be >= 0.

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Allolex