cousin_it comments on "Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 15 July 2009 12:18:05PM *  6 points [-]

Am not! :-) I can't say I liked the article that much either. I just wanted to run it by the LW crowd to see if you people could detect a valid argument that I'd missed, like Rune did with the chess post.

The anger wasn't about you as a person, but about the discussion standard being lowered. If you dislike the article, you were supposed to communicate your reasons. Like, actually write a paragraph or two of text that doesn't completely consist of unsubstantiated claims like "utter nonsense", "ridiculous" or "hopelessly inadequate". Otherwise the validity of your dislike remains a mystery to everyone but yourself, and all we get is a one-liner comment thread.

Yes, spelling things out takes effort. I for one put quite a lot of effort into the quality of my comments at LW and would like others to do the same lest the place devolves.

Hope that helps.