Here and in the last bit--Musing on Monastery Content--you have written about the quality and appropriateness of votes; and implied that those who can't vote properly, as defined by a long, opaque set of rules, shouldn't be allowed to vote. A vote is a symbol of an opinion. If you assert, however indirectly, that no one has any right to have an opinion unless they arrived at it by an approved process, you'll get downvotes. It's not a mystery.

The flip-side of discouraging vindictiveness is the difficult to accept but often valid understanding one's subjective, meandering, and off-topic provocations.

In reply to Re: discouraging vindictiveness by Your Mother
in thread discouraging vindictiveness by apotheon

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