I actively disagree. You don't have to read those threads, but polite and measured responses to dumb ideas is one of the best ways to get yourself out of those ideas. We literally have dumb question threads for exactly that purpose. I also think it's good to encourage people to be patient and explain things. What "damage" was caused? A couple hundred posts about something that you don't have to read, but which could very well be useful to other people.
You want to take a community of people that try to help others understand and instead silence all conversation along lines you disapprove of.
You don't have to read those threads, but polite and measured responses to dumb ideas is one of the best ways to get yourself out of those ideas.
In the example I gave, this clearly didn't apply.
We literally have dumb question threads for exactly that purpose.
There are important details that distinguish the conversations happening in stupid questions threads. These details also cause those threads to not be downvoted.
...You want to take a community of people that try to help others understand and instead silence all conversation along lines you disapp
Has anyone yet mentioned or reported that for the last couple days, the "karma for last 30 days" is showing zero for everyone? And that we no longer can see the top contributors for the last 30 days either?
Do we have an explanation or estimation for a bugfix on this?