Good comment. It's a shame I have a policy of never upvoting anything that has a smiley face.

Only one problem: you misinterpreted me, and it's my fault entirely. The proximity of those two paragraphs was not meant to indicate that the latter explains the former. That second paragraph refers to the whole phenomenon of the article, not just what happens to the perception of an otherwise good comment prefaced with "obviously". I actually noticed this mistake before publishing but didn't fix it for some reason.