If almost everyone thought it's bad I would expect it to have much more downvotes than upvotes, even given the few people who voted it up to "stimulate discussion". But you probably know more about statistics than I do, so never mind.

...it's quite likely that someone would eventually write up a better post asking similar questions.

Before or after the SIAI build a FAI? I waited half a decade for any of those questions to be asked in the first place.

Or alternatively, those who wanted to "stimulate discussion" could have just looked in the LW archives and found all the discussion they could ever hope for.

Right, haven't thought about that! I'll be right back reading a few thousand comments to find some transparency.