You shouldn't, but I address why you shouldn't whine either in my comment. I'm sure LW will let you know if a poll of the peanut gallery is required.
This is needlessly insulting. And I'll have you know I haven't "whined" at all. My only comment was a reply to your comment in which you "whined" about people expressing negative opinions. Well, from what I see, there are mostly positive opinions, and praise, and karma for people who approve. You yourself got upvoted to 15 in the great-grandparent, for example.
Oh my God this is so stereotypical.
Just be glad I told you.
My only comment was a reply to your comment in which you "whined" about people expressing negative opinions.
Ah, but you see, my fundamental point is that there's a big difference. I am trying to disincentive disincentivizing progress. My whining is double-negative virtuous! Om nom nom delicious moral high ground. You're right that I was needlessly insulting, but there are no incentives to avoid being needlessly insulting. Maybe you should write a top-level comment about the importance of not disincentivizing criticism? Karma is just a weather ...
Good now that that's out of the way, let me say I really like the new header, but replacing things like "deleted", "report" ect. with pictogram's is unnecessary in my opinion.
The new nesting seems less aesthetically pleasing, though I think that is outweighed by it being easier to follow so that's a good change.
Thumbs up and thumbs down however seems to me, to have a different implied meaning compared to up vote and down vote. Is this a bug or a feature?
Edit: One month later the pictograms seem a much better idea than they where at first.