Comment on What is missing from rationality?

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:47:13 GMT

The real reason why it was downvoted was because it contradicts the prevailing view here.

Here is a comment that contradicts the prevailing view here. Seriously, there are maybe one or two other posters here who are sympathetic to your conspiracy mongering but no one agrees with Alicorn about ethics. It was at +6 (though of course it is by a woman so that's probably why people upvoted).

Here is why your comment was voted into oblivion:

1. You linked to evidence that wasn't anywhere close to the magnitude it needed to be given the extreme unlikelihood of the proposition it was marshaled to support. It is rather like linking to a video of someone recounting a religious experience or an alien abduction. It was clear from the context that you took yourself to be offering powerful evidence in favor the proposition that the 9/11 attacks were a government plot. The downvoters were telling you this wasn't good enough evidence to justify a link and to stop wasting their time with noise.

2. Your past forays into this topic and subsequent inability to update when people rebut your position left people with no patience for that crap.

3. It was off-topic and flame bait.

4. You kept drawing attention to it, making sure everyone on the site saw it ensuring even more downvotes.

(Incidentally, I never bothered to downvote that particular comment)

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