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Thank you for explaining. However:
I wish you had added "in my opinion" to this sentence. Because I thought my comment was new and interesting: I took a trollish comment and turned it into a legitimate element of the list -- thereby creating irony, which is interesting. Moreover, the particular list element that resulted -- "EY is a high school dropout with no formal education in anything, and yet people write lists like this about him" -- is distinguished from nearly all the others in being (almost) true, which makes it even more interesting.
Naturally, I don't expect you to agree, given your opinions as expressed above. However, simply saying "you did not say anything new or interesting", as if it were a fact beyond dispute, makes it sound like it should have been obvious to me that it wasn't interesting, which is kind of a rude thing to suggest, given the fact that I actually thought it was interesting, and had a reasonable rationale for thinking so, as explained above. Indeed, given that you realize that you are a contrarian in disliking the post, I should rather have expected you to anticipate that not only I but also a fair number of other readers would have a different evaluation of my comment.
Furthermore:
I do not consider this to be a legitimate reason for downvoting a comment; comments should be evaluated on their own merits, and not on those of the post to which they are attached.
Finally, despite the fact that I appreciate this comment explaining your reasons for downvoting -- which, as you can see, I did not interpret correctly, something you should consider the next time you want to communicate a message with an unexplained vote -- I do not appreciate this remark:
I do not consider my comments here to represent either a failure mode or a demonstration of superior rationality.
I'm not prepared to defend it as legitimate, but it was a factor in my decision to downvote, and I was trying to be reasonably honest.
Please note that I really don't like talking about karma like it's important, and this dialogue, qua dialogue, is now over.