I completely agree with you that surrounding my statements with self-doubt would have increased my karma.

However, I do not agree that this is a sufficient reason to surround my statements with self-doubt. As I said, I don't care about karma.

I do care about things that often correlate with karma, such as accuracy and insight. If there is evidence that surrounding these statements with self-doubt will increase my accuracy, I will do it. Therefore, I look forward to any evidence proffered that my claim C1 is incorrect (such as an argument that one of komponisto's four statements I've charged to be misleading is, in fact, correct). So far, I have not heard any such evidence in this thread.